
بوگاندا
Sign in to saveThe Baganda (endonym: (A)Baganda; singular (O)Muganda; in Luganda or plural Waganda in Kiswahili or Ganda in old English texts), are a Bantu ethnic group that share a common culture, history and language and clans, and are primarily native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda. Traditionally composed of 52 clans (although since a 1993 survey, only 46 are officially recognised), the Baganda are the largest people of the Bantu ethnic group in Uganda, comprising 15.3 percent of the population at the time of the 2024 census.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Baganda
- Ethnic group.flag
- Flag of Buganda.svg
- Ethnic group.flag_caption
- Flag of the Buganda Kingdom.
- Ethnic group.image
- We Embrace happiness.jpg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Baganda traditional dance
- Ethnic group.total
- 7,037,404
- Ethnic group.rels
- Christianity, African Traditional Religion, Islam
- Ethnic group.langs
- Luganda, Swahili, English
- Ethnic group.related
- Basoga, Bagwere and other Bantu peoples
- Ethnonym.root
- Ganda
- Ethnonym.person
- OmuGanda
- Ethnonym.people
- AbaGanda
- Ethnonym.language
- OluGanda
- Ethnonym.country
- BuGanda
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- Ganda people
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