Buganda Has Lost its common sense!: an historical inspiration for Modern Uganda, Organization on par with the Tutsi
I will begin by prefacing that Buganda is the most social, economic and most regionally influential population in the history of Uganda. Some may claim Bunyoro but Bunyoro at its heart did not have the same impressive civilizational prowess Buganda had at the time, that characterized Buganda and of course that consequently led to its foreshadowing of the one, ''Uganda''.
This is not a glaze of Buganda kingdom by any margin and it is also important to know that Buganda Kingdom as we know it, blurred the lines between a State and what we would call today a Kingdom as evidenced from its expanse and reach to the coast, and the trade it partook with the coast and the adoption of currency therein, and even later writing.
I will begin by laying out the psychology of a Muganda: The Psychology of a Muganda like any other population is determined by their subsistence strategies which acts as a method of estimating the sophistication of an individual against the entire population.
I will not fully explain every strategy in this post, so the posts purpose is prefacing the connection between the success of these strategies, what brought the downfall of the population leading into larger deculturization after the introduction of inner civilization conflict from Angloid interference.
The aim of subsistence strategies is to build surplus, which then builds civilization through the concept of luxury because philosophy is born according to the theorist I will link later in this post, First comes theism, philosophy then religion. The developments of Buganda's economic and cultural hegemony are therefore tied to how they compare to their counterparts in the meta.
In Africa, there are several subsistence strategies and all aren't equal in their development of surplus as is the case of Buganda and its counterparts, these subsistence strategies include, Pastoralism, Aquatorialism and agriculturalism.
Baganda are firmly practitioners of Aquatorialism, a trait shared by their ancestral kin in the medieval state of Mbanza Congo which stretch from northern Namibia to northern Angola into Eastern DRC. This trait of aquatorialism, is tied to the Aqualithic of ancient times, an aspect of superior Mediterranean origins: The "Aqualithic" refers to a prehistoric, water-based, and fishing-focused culture (circa 9000–5000 BC) that flourished across the Sahara, including Egypt, during the African Humid Period.
It is therefore not out of the realm of possibility, that Buganda's hegemony, given the Mbanza Congo and the Mediterranean as citation, would have been an overseeing head of all states possibly pushing all of them into suzerainty as it has always been in control of them since the Migration of the Luvale Ovisherero, who have monotheism like Baganda who have Katonda a central deity and figure and creation of all things similar to the myths of Mukongo and Ovisherero nations.
Take note: There are no ties to some elusive Hamitic race or Ethiopids Angloids like to make Buganda and Muhima society about. Baganda by all definition criterion fall under Caucasoids Like All Bantu. We are not Pygmies, Hutus, Semites, Cushites or whites. We are a Unique lineage that is currently going through historical erasure!
Buganda had cloth production, that it would sell to other kingdoms, initiating trade along these given lines.
Buganda adopts coastal Kiswahili and intellectual writing practices in the Arabic script.
Buganda adopted Kiswahili coastal education systems and a class of literate elite of Ulama were born.
Nothing characterizes a civilization than its road network and organization of its society: Richard Reid describes an infrastructure that reflected a highly centralized and "materially ambitious" state. While the account suggests a society where absolute destitution was rare due to the agrarian system, it emphasizes that this "lack of poverty" was tied to a rigid social hierarchy and a demanding labor tax system. Speke described the Roads as wide as 150ft. And no one in the society lived in poverty as food security was ensured, recruitment into infrastructure for the peasant class assured its stability.
The question we all have is what happened?
Well, In the time of Kabaka Mwanga, was a time characterized by the large influx of foreigners like Missionaries, and Islamic practices, which then led to internal religious conflict, together with the unastute leadership of Mwanga's call to concentrate unrealistic amounts of labour into the building of Kabaka's lake, which then led to a revolt and the subsequent impeachment of Kabaka Mwanga, that then led to his reinstallation after temporary replacement, then leading to civil war, partnership with Bunyoro with the eventual loss of Buganda's sovereignty at the hand of the British. When these events are given the clear attention to detail required, they are indeed intentional and calculated and the ulterior motives of the Angloids show their ugly head.
The Tutsi are equally as successful however as seen in the above the common sense of Buganda was formidable. I believe had this chronology of events been left without interruption, Buganda would control Rwanda and Mozambique. A similar order would have followed with Mbanza Congo had the colonists just left these states to sort themselves out! This project of Bantu was in full swing and was about to meet its eventual conclusion, in Buganda and Manikongo of Isikongo Hegemony, from East, to West respectively.
Posted Mar 6, 2026, 4:03 AM UTC