Buganda, Kingdom of

Buganda is a subnational kingdom within Uganda.

The kingdom of the Ganda people, Buganda is the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda, comprising all of Uganda's Central Region, including the Ugandan capital Kampala.

The 5.5 million Baganda (singular Muganda; often referred to simply by the root word and adjective, Ganda) make up the largest Ugandan ethnic group, representing approximately 16.9% of Uganda's population.

Buganda has a long and extensive history.

Unified in the fourteenth century under the first king Kato Kintu, the founder of Buganda's Kintu Dynasty, Buganda grows to become one of the largest and most powerful states in East Africa during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

During the Scramble for Africa, and following unsuccessful attempts to retain its independence against British imperialism, Buganda becomes the centre of the Uganda Protectorate in 1894; the name Uganda, the Swahili term for Buganda, is adopted by British officials.

Under British rule, many Baganda acquire status as colonial administrators, and Buganda becomes a major producer of cotton and coffee.Following Uganda's independence in 1962, the kingdom is abolished by Uganda's first Prime Minister, Milton Obote ,in 1966.

Following years of disturbance under Obote and dictator Idi Amin, as well as several years of internal divisions among Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement under Yoweri Museveni, the President of Uganda since 1986, the kingdom is finally restored in 1993.

Buganda is now a kingdom monarchy with a large degree of autonomy from the Ugandan state, although tensions between the kingdom and the Ugandan government continue to be a defining feature of Ugandan politics.Since the restoration of the kingdom in 1993, the king of Buganda, known as the Kabaka, has been Muwenda Mutebi II.

He is recognized as the thirty-sixth Kabaka of Buganda.

The current queen, known as the Nnabagereka, is Queen Sylvia Nagginda.

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