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Baganda, n. and a.|bəˈgændə|
[Bantu name; cf. Swahili Waganda.]
A. n. A negroid Bantu-speaking people inhabiting Buganda, a province of Uganda on the N.W. shore of Lake Victoria.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people.
[1882Wilson & Felkin Uganda & Egyptian Soudan I. vii. 148 Several tribes are to be found in Uganda, living..scattered through the country. The most important tribe, in every respect, is that of the Waganda.] 1889R. P. Ashe Two Kings of Uganda vi. 47 Bloody raids for which the Baganda are infamously famous. Ibid. xviii. 215 (heading) Baganda converts and martyrs. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 541/2 The Bantu negroes..include the remarkable Baganda people. Ibid., The Baganda are now mainly Christian. 1911Frazer Golden Bough (ed. 3) I. iii. 142 The Baganda believe that a barren wife infects her husband's garden with her own sterility. 1960Economist 8 Oct. 136/2 The Uganda government must therefore press on with the February elections, despite the gyrations of the Baganda. |