Buganda
Buganda is a kingdom in what is now Uganda in Africa . The kingdom is supported by the 52 clans of the Baganda . Buganda is congruent with the Central Region of Uganda.
The inhabitants of Buganda are called Baganda (singular: Muganda) and their language is Luganda . The current country name Uganda is the Swahili expression for Buganda and was adopted by the British officials of the Protectorate in 1894. Monarchs of Buganda are called Kabaka or Ssekabakka after their death.
Buganda borders Lake Victoria in the south, the Victoria Nile in the east and Lake Kyoga in the north . Buganda is in the middle of Africa and is divided by the equator.
From the 18th century to the 20th century, the Buganda kingdom had a dominant position in Central Africa . It is now a partially independent province of Uganda. The old capital Entebbe and the new Kampala are in Buganda.
history
Cushitic speaking and Nilotic shepherds , who called themselves Hima or Tutsi , probably came to the area from the north around the 14th century and came into contact with the established Bantu , whereupon the empire of the Kabaka of Buganda emerged. The succession of the Kabaka to the throne can be proven almost continuously from 1374.
Buganda is known for the tombs of the Buganda kings, Kasubi Tombs , which have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001 and were reconstructed after a fire in 2010.
In 1894 Uganda became a British protectorate and with it the Kingdom of Buganda, nevertheless it assumed supremacy alongside the largely independently ruling tribal princes of the kingdoms of Banyoro , Ankole and Toro . On October 9, 1963, the then Kabaka of Buganda Sir Edward Mutesa became President of the independent federal Republic of Uganda. In 1966, the king was driven out by Prime Minister Milton Obote , who made himself head of it. Buganda thus lost its independence. A period of oppression followed by Milton Obote and Idi Amin .
The royal family had to flee. The son of the last Kabaka, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II , returned to Uganda in 1986 and was crowned the 36th Kabaka of Buganda on July 31, 1993. On December 19, 1997, the former Lubiri Royal Palace in Mengo, today a suburb in the southwest of Kampala, was returned to Buganda by the central government of Uganda. Today it is the seat of the Bugandan government and parliament.
The return of the Lubiri was part of a ten-point plan to pacify the partly unrest-shaken Buganda region.
literature
- Michael Petzet: Uganda: tombs of the buganda kings at Kasubi . In: Historic England (ed.): Heritage at risk . tape 2008-10 , 2010, ISSN 2365-5615 , pp. 181 , doi : 10.11588 / hr.2010.0.19980 .
- Christopher Wrigley: Kingship and state. The Buganda dynasty (= African Studies . No. 88 ). Cambridge University Press, New York / Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-47370-5 .
Web links
- The Buganda Home Page . buganda.com (English)
- Buganda. buganda.de (in German, English and Luganda)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Petzet: Uganda: tombs of the buganda kings at Kasubi . In: Historic England (ed.): Heritage at risk . tape 2008-10 , 2010, ISSN 2365-5615 , pp. 181 , doi : 10.11588 / hr.2010.0.19980 .
