Baranzi

The Baranzi stand for the lineage of Bukuku and his daughter Nyinamwiru in the oral traditions of Kitara, the legendary Chwezi state of the Great Lakes region. Bukuku, a commoner of the Iru order, was deputy to Isaza, last king of the Tembuzi dynasty, and proclaimed himself ruler after Isaza was carried off into the underworld.

The county chiefs refused to follow a common-born king and rebelled. Bukuku was eventually killed in a quarrel over cattle by his grandson Karubumbi, also called Ndahura, who then founded the Chwezi dynasty. Nyinamwiru is remembered as the mother of Ndahura, the first Chwezi king, and Baranzi is also the name of one of the oldest clans of Bunyoro and Buluuli.