Baganda

"Equipment of the Waganda", from: The German Emin Pascha Expedition , around 1891

The Baganda , also Ganda or Waganda , (singular: Muganda) are an African people. They belong to the East Bantu and live mainly in the area of Lake Victoria . The name of the British protectorate and later state of Uganda is derived from the tribal name of the Ganda .

The language of the Baganda is the Luganda . It belongs to the Bantu languages within the Niger-Congo language family . From the 16th century the Baganda were the founders of one of the largest Hima empires in East Africa, the Buganda Kingdom . After a break of several decades there is again a Kabaka (king), namely Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II.

Traditionally the Ganda live from agriculture . They grow food ( sweet potatoes , cassava , corn , peanuts , bananas, etc.) for their own use . Coffee , tobacco and tea are grown for the domestic and international markets .

The majority of the Ganda are Christians today .

The bond researcher Mary Ainsworth led from 1954 to 1955 as a senior research fellow at Makrere College in Kampala , a field research project on best parent-child relationships with the people of Ganda through which she in her book Infancy in Uganda described.

In Uganda there were 3,015,980 (18.76% of Ugandans) and 4,126,370 (17.28%) members of this Bantu tribe in 2002 (census results). South of the Ugandan-Tanzanian border, more than 10,000 Ganda still live in the area of Tanzania .

"Destructive Society"

The social psychologist Erich Fromm analyzed the willingness of 30 pre-state peoples, including the Baganda, to use ethnographic records to analyze the anatomy of human destructiveness . In conclusion, he assigned them to the “destructive societies” whose cultures are characterized by a lack of community spirit with pronounced individuality (egoism, possession, rivalry, envy) and by a hostile and tense mood (insidiousness, mistrust, fear of the future). Their social structure was strictly hierarchical, offenses were punished with harsh punishments, the ideological worldview determined the upbringing of children and led to destructiveness, blind aggression and cruelty within the people and towards others. Imperialist aspirations and wars of aggression are common phenomena in destructive societies. (see also: "War and Peace" in pre-state societies )

literature

Karl Weule : Waganda, in: Heinrich Schnee (Hrsg.): German Colonial Lexicon. Volume 3, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 652.
Mary Ainsworth: Infancy in Uganda: Infant Care and the Growth of Love . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1967 [1]

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Keyword Ganda. In: Goldmann Lexicon in 24 volumes. BLI Bertelsmann Lexicographical Institute 1998; Volume 8, p. 3388. ISBN 3-442-90000-X .
^ Mary Ainsworth: Infancy in Uganda: Infant Care and the Growth of Love. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1967
↑ Erich Fromm: Anatomy of human destructiveness . From the American by Liselotte et al. Ernst Mickel, 86th - 100th thousand edition, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-499-17052-3 , pp. 191, 193.

[Goldmann-1] Keyword Ganda. In: Goldmann Lexicon in 24 volumes. BLI Bertelsmann Lexicographical Institute 1998; Volume 8, p. 3388. ISBN 3-442-90000-X .

[2] Mary Ainsworth: Infancy in Uganda: Infant Care and the Growth of Love. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1967

[3] Erich Fromm: Anatomy of human destructiveness . From the American by Liselotte et al. Ernst Mickel, 86th - 100th thousand edition, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-499-17052-3 , pp. 191, 193.