Baganda
/bɑːˈɡændə/noun
The Baganda are a Bantu ethnic group of Uganda, centered in the historical kingdom of Buganda.
Did you know?Baganda is the English plural ethnonym for the people of Buganda, and its history is tied to the kingdom’s name rather than to a spooky or occult root.
Etymological Timeline
Precolonial period
Bantu
*ganda
“An ancestral ethnonym/root associated with the people and kingdom later known as Ganda/Baganda”
Precolonial period
Luganda
Buganda
“The kingdom of the Ganda people in what is now central Uganda”
19th Century
English
Baganda
“English plural form used for the people of Buganda”
Modern English
English
Baganda
“The people of the Buganda kingdom in Uganda”