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Political Power in Pre-colonial Buganda: Economy, Society and Warfare in the 19th Century (2002) Rowe, John A. "Eyewitness Accounts of Buganda History: The Memoirs of Ham Mukasa and His Generation." Ethnohistory 36 (1989): 61–71. Wrigley, C. C. "Buganda: An Outline Economic History". Economic History Review 10#1 1957, pp. 69–80 online
Buganda is a Bantu kingdom within Uganda. The kingdom of the Baganda people, Buganda is the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day East Africa, consisting of Uganda's Central Region, including the Ugandan capital Kampala.
Bantu speaking farmers first arrived in far-southern Uganda in the year 1000BC. [6] [3] They also raised goats and chickens, and they probably kept some cattle by 400 BCE.[citation needed] Their knowledge of agriculture and use of iron-forging technology permitted them to clear the land and feed ever larger numbers of settlers. [3]
Twaddle, Michael. "The Bakungu chiefs of Buganda under British colonial rule, 1900–1930." Journal of African History 10#2 (1969): 309–322. Ward, Kevin. "A history of Christianity in Uganda." in From mission to church: A handbook of Christianity in East Africa (1991): 81-112 online.
Uganda, [b] officially the Republic of Uganda, [c] is a landlocked country in East Africa.It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania.
Buganda's population in 1959 was 2 million, out of Uganda's total of 6 million. Even discounting the many non-Baganda resident in Buganda, there were at least 1 million people who owed allegiance to the Kabaka — too many to be overlooked or shunted aside, but too few to dominate the country as a whole.
Inside Buganda's royal tombs such as the Kasubi Tombs and the Wamala Tombs, one is shown the entrance of the forest. It is a taboo to look beyond the entrance. Additionally, there is another specific tradition of the Baganda concerning the two kings who rule the Kingdom of Buganda that began after the death of Kabaka Tebandeke ( c. 1704 – c ...
The lost counties referendum of November 1964 was a local referendum held to decide whether the "lost counties" of Buyaga and Bugangaizi in Uganda (modern day Kibaale District) should continue to be part of the Kingdom of Buganda, be transferred back to the Kingdom of Bunyoro, or be established as a separate district.