Editing Buganda (section)

==== 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>