Baganda
Britishnoun
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The youth were members of the Baganda ethnic group and furious that Mr. Museveni’s government was trying to curtail the powers of their traditional king.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2011
A Bugandan kingdom official, Charles Peter Mayiga, said the gutted mausoleum was built in 1860 by Kabaka Mutesa I and was an object of deep historical and cultural reverence for the Baganda people.
From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2010
Museveni based his five-year military struggle in the kingdom's heartland, and support by the Baganda has helped him stay in power.
From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2010
The alleged conspirators, members of the dominant Baganda tribe, which backed Museveni during the five-year civil war that brought him to power, apparently were unhappy with their lack of rewards.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a like reason, probably, the Baganda imagine that a woman who does not menstruate exerts a malign influence on gardens and makes them barren71 if she works in them.
From Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul by Sir James George Frazer
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