Editing Buganda (section)

===Origin===
The region of Buganda was inhabited by [[Bantu peoples]] from the 6th century CE, who made [[Urewe]] pottery. [[Baganda]] [[oral tradition]]s hold the founder of the kingdom to have been [[Kato Kintu]], who migrated from the north-eastern direction of [[Mount Elgon]], leading various clans. In the region of Buganda he found various indigenous clans (''[[banansangwawo]]''), said to have had thirty kings prior to Kintu's arrival. Kintu defeated their last king, Bemba Musota. Likely founded between the 12th and 14th centuries, Buganda was initially a small kingdom covering the counties of [[Kyadondo]], [[Busiro]], and [[Mawokota]]. Further clans migrated in from the east. According to tradition, Kintu disappeared after having founded the kingdom.<ref name=":8">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Buganda: To Nineteenth Century |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of African History |publisher=[[Fitzroy Dearborn]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&pg=PA636 |last=Ktyaga-Mulindwa |first=David |date=2005 |editor-last1=Shillington |editor-first1=Kevin |pages=636–650 |isbn=1-57958-245-1 |last1= |first1=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Buganda |encyclopedia=The Nile: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mBjHEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA78&dq=buganda+%2214th+century%22&ots=K_jwSoVT2l&sig=7ICVXRKam8mEy_urzkHzxdDHr9A#v=onepage&q=buganda%20%2214th%20century%22&f=false |last=Shoup |first=John A. |date=2017-05-12 |language=en |isbn=978-1-4408-4041-8}}</ref>{{Rp|page=80}} Prominent scholars such as [[Apollo Kaggwa]] and [[Lloyd Fallers]] consider Buganda's dynasty to have been local in origin, developing from ''[[primus inter pares]]'' [[Patrilineality|patrilineal]] groups, which corroborates with the power [[clan head]]s had in Buganda's early history.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Beattie |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/nyorostate0000beat |title=The Nyoro state. -- |date=1971 |publisher=Oxford : Clarendon Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-19-823171-4}}</ref>{{Rp|page=256}}

[[Elizabeth Isichei]] says that it is likely that the Buganda state is much more ancient than has previously been thought, and that Buganda began as a small kingdom in the north of [[Lake Victoria]] in what is now Busiro County.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Isichei |first1=Elizabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3C2tzBSAp3MC |title=A History of African Societies to 1870 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-521-45599-2 |page=136}}</ref> [[Christopher Wrigley]] wrote "A political structure of some sort, small in scale and mainly ritual in function, may be taken to have existed in northern Busiro, where the ancient shrines are clustered, at a time far beyond the reach of historical tradition...the rituals of Ganda kingship are both too elaborate and too archaic in character to have been evolved within the past few centuries."<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171765|title=The Kinglists of Buganda|page=134|jstor=3171765 |last1=Wrigley |first1=C. C. |journal=History in Africa |date=1974 |volume=1 |doi=10.2307/3171765 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==== Buganda and Kitara ====
[[Banyoro]] oral history (from Buganda's historical rival, [[Bunyoro|Bunyoro-Kitara]]) says that [[Kimera of Buganda|Kimera]], Buganda's third king, came from Bunyoro following the collapse of the Chwezi dynasty of [[Empire of Kitara|Kitara]], leading some clans to found a new [[Babiito dynasty]] in Buganda. This is fiercely contested by the Baganda, whose [[king list]] documents an unbroken line of 36 kings descending from Kintu,<ref name=":8" /> and some have called it "patriotic fiction".<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/180147 |title=Bunyoro and the British: A Reappraisal of the causes for the Decline and Fall of an African Kingdom |page=604}}</ref>

Baganda oral history says that Buganda was distinct and of at least equal antiquity to Kitara.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/nyorostate0000beat/mode/2up|title= The Nyoro State|date= 1971|page=246|isbn= 978-0-19-823171-4|last1= Beattie|first1= John|publisher= Clarendon Press}}</ref> It has no mention of the Chwezi, and according to the historian Christopher Wrigley, "It is unlikely that Buganda was fully integrated into the system that was probably not called Kitara. Its language is distinct from '[[Rutara languages|Rutara]]', and the directors of the [[Ntusi]] and [[Bigo bya Mugenyi|Biggo]] systems would not have had much interest in a land that was not really suited to cattle-rearing".<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWKAFW9oVJcC
 | title=Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty | page=78|isbn=9780521894357 | last1=Wrigley | first1=Christopher | date=2002 | publisher=Cambridge University Press }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3C2tzBSAp3MC|title=A History of African Societies to 1870|page=445|isbn=9780521455992|last1=Isichei|first1=Elizabeth|date=1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press }}</ref><ref name="Primitive Government">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/primitivegovernm0000mair/page/n251/mode/2up|title=Primitive Government|date=1977 |page=133}}</ref>