Buganda
- proper noun
- The 1891 treaty between Captain Lugard and the ruler of Buganda.
- the kingdom of Buganda
- the authority in Buganda
- the king of Buganda
Examples
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After all, other areas had taxes too, but in Buganda there were a host of obligations and restrictions.
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There have been a variety of "Bataka" political and social identities and movements in Buganda.
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How many governments are there in Buganda to give orders to the people?
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Yeah, it's the Buganda people in the South who sort of dominate.
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Kings, though, were the only people in Buganda capable of holding the spirits to account.
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His injunction to "the young generation of Buganda" was that they must not.
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The early treaties between Britain and Buganda all emphasized this point.
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But they deployed that identity to build a mass political movement that understood Buganda's connections to a much bigger world.
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On March 11, 1902, the Lukiiko declared: "The shells are no longer of any value in Buganda."
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The cultural heritage of Buganda is celebrated through various traditional ceremonies.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Buganda comes from the local language Luganda: Bu- means 'land' and Ganda is the name of the people, so Buganda literally means 'land of the Ganda'. That's why Buganda is the region and traditional kingdom of the Ganda people.