Buganda

Buganda was a Baganda kingdom on the northwestern shore of Lake Victoria. Tradition credited Kato Kintu with uniting local clans; his son Chwa I Nabakka ruled in the mid-fourteenth century.

In the sixteenth century Bunyoro invaded and killed Kabaka Nakinge, but Buganda remained independent. As Bunyoro weakened, the kabakas took Buddu and parts of Busoga and made Kooki pay tribute. In the early nineteenth century Kabaka Kamanya waged frequent wars and governed through appointed chiefs, royal runners and talking drums.