Baganda
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
The Baganda are Uganda's largest tribe and were instrumental in Museveni coming to power 24 years ago.
From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2010
They beat their cheeks in the Baganda brand of war whoop, thumped tom-toms, flung themselves prostrate as the Kabaka passed.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to the Baganda the first man who came to earth in Uganda was named Kintu.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Sir James George Frazer
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