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Buganda

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Bu·gan·da  (b-gnd, by-)
A region and former kingdom of eastern Africa on the northern shore of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda. It was a British protectorate from 1894 until 1962, when it joined independent Uganda.
Buganda [bʊˈgændə]
n
(Placename) a region of Uganda: a powerful Bantu kingdom from the 17th century
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Noun1.Buganda - a state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom
Republic of Uganda, Uganda - a landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962
capital of Uganda, Kampala - the capital and largest city of Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria


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1) Mulumba's response to a dinner invitation with a critique of the colonial order--as a closely interlocked system of cooperation among officials and missions, the Kingdom of Buganda and protectorate officials--was rude, deliberately rude, an attack on the forms of manners and politeness that had shaped both British and Ganda deployments of power and influence in Buganda since at least the beginning of the Uganda Protectorate in 1900.
Radical rudeness: Ugandan social critiques in the 1940s by Summers, Carol / Journal of Social History
When young Mwanga succeeded Mutesa I on the throne of Buganda in 1884, both Protestants and Catholics were preaching at the Kabaka's court.
Modernism and cultural politics in East Africa: Cecil Todd's drawings ... by Sanyal, Sunanda K. / African Arts
The diocese of Rupert's Land recently hosted a delegation of 11 people from the diocese of Central Buganda in Uganda, including Bishop Jackson Matovu.
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