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Buganda

Either of two provinces (North and South Buganda) of Uganda, home of the Baganda people and formerly a kingdom from the 17th century. The former kabaka, or king, Edward Mutesa II (1924–1969), was the first president of independent Uganda 1963–66. He was deposed as monarch in 1966.

His son Ronald Mutebi (1955– ) is sabataka (head of the Baganda clans) and became king when the monarchy was restored in 1993.



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1) Mulumba's response to a dinner invitation with a critique of the colonial order--as a closely interlocked system of cooperation among officials and missions, the Kingdom of Buganda and protectorate officials--was rude, deliberately rude, an attack on the forms of manners and politeness that had shaped both British and Ganda deployments of power and influence in Buganda since at least the beginning of the Uganda Protectorate in 1900.
Radical rudeness: Ugandan social critiques in the 1940s by Summers, Carol / Journal of Social History
As Kampala is located in the heart of the kingdom of Buganda, once the most powerful of the four monarchies of southern Uganda, the majority of the artists at the School, including Kabiito, are Baganda.
Kabiito Richard's paintings: a local reinvention in a global ... by Sanyal, Sunanda K. / African Arts
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