Buganda
/buːˈɡændə/noun
A kingdom and cultural region in southern Uganda, home of the Baganda people.
Did you know?Buganda is the historical kingdom centered in the Lake Victoria region, and its name is tied to the people called the Baganda, whose political and ceremonial traditions shaped the history of modern Uganda.
Etymological Timeline
Precolonial era
Bantu
*ganda
“An ancestral ethnonym/root underlying the name of the Baganda people”
Precolonial era
Bantu
Ba-ganda
“The Baganda people, with the class prefix ba- marking people”
Precolonial era
Bantu
Bu-ganda
“The land or kingdom of the Baganda, with bu- marking a territory or state”
19th Century
English
Buganda
“The kingdom of the Baganda in East Africa, recorded by outsiders in colonial-era sources”
Modern English
English
Buganda
“The name of the historic kingdom and region in present-day Uganda”