kabaka

Examples

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• During the ceremony, the kabaka was adorned in traditional regalia, symbolizing his royal status.

• Paying tax in barkcloth was, in fact, giving a gift of barkcloth to the kabaka.

  Academic text (2006)

• Women, on the other hand, could be taken as individuals, especially by the kabaka.

  Academic text (2005)

• I was not afraid to take the presidency from Obote or to send the Kabaka to England.

  Fiction book (1998)

• But unless the child's father was the kabaka, their child would belong to a clan different from their own.

  Academic text (2005)

• Tax collectors were therefore working on behalf of the kabaka, and what people paid was known to be destined for him.

  Academic text (2006)

• The British could not change the tax provisions in the protectorate without kabaka and Lukiiko approval, which would be a sticking point later.

  Academic text (2006)

• The kabaka, nnamasole, Regents, and saza chiefs also received free gun licenses, as did major landowners.

  Academic text (2006)

• For Ssengendo, who belongs to a highly influential family close to royalty, the young kabaka's coronation in 1993 was a symbolic event in this new process of healing and renewal.

  Academic text (2004)

• Buganda should have been represented by the monarch, the kabaka, but the current kabaka was Daudi Chwa, who was a minor at the time, having been installed by the British in 1897 at the age of one after his father rebelled against and was defeated by the British.

  Academic text (2006)

Synonyms

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vskabaka

9.9

A traditional leader in Igbo communities in Nigeria

refers to the same role but for the Buganda people in Uganda

Surface Forms

Etymology