I'm from Uganda and went to private school there with one of the princesses 👸 of the Buganda Kingdom and she was surprisingly normal that I didn't know she was a princess though not of the Queen but I still didn't know until the Queen came for parents day.
This is the ignorance that most people don't know that many of these African people still have their queens and King titles among their ethnic groups and tribes!
The interplay of power and gender in pre-colonial African societies is something I’m obsessed with. As a huge fantasy nerd I’m always excited when I see that a writer or an artist has taken inspiration from traditional political structures. Great video as always, mate. 👌🏿
I think something we don't take into account is this was being recorded by outsiders.. we do not know how the restrictions on women were affected by the "visitors" themselves.. for all they knew.. a general order was made that women should remain housed &largely hidden whenever these suspicious white missionaries or merchants were around
We need map illustrations/animations bro.. when you're talking about these great African countries it would be nice to see exactly where they are.. it adds a level of excitement to the videos which in turn draws in more fans viewers Blessings 👊🏾🕶️
Beautiful people! I love Africa (I'm Greek, not that it matters)! Africa it the gem of the earth, the oldest continent! But also the most suppressed, exploited, undermined, this is why the west is funding wars, this why they don't want to African people, to overcome, starvation, diseases, poverty etc! Because if they gaine the control of their countries, they will also they will have the control of the minerals! The mine industries of Africa, if this was the case, the world wouldn't be the same.
The Buganda Kingdom still works this way Normally the Queen of Uganda has to be from a Royal Clan and The Kabaka has no choice in the matter The current Queen Sylvia was the first in 50 years and was a childhood friend of Mutesa II and they fell in love when she returned from 18 years living in The United States and London being raised by her grandparents .. I believe she has only one child from Mutesa II, Princess Katrina who I understand runs much of the business matter of The Kingdom She is of the important Omusu Clan so tradition was not broken en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Sylvia_of_Buganda Kabakas are notoriously polygamous but the other mothers are concubines and Queen Sylvia presides over an unknown number of step-children A few years ago a much Revered Kraal Chief in Karamoja was killed at 54 years old and the eulogy published across Uganda plainly stated he was survived by some 84 wives, 123 children, and 2000 cows The Kabaka likely has a herd numbering around 10,000
I'd be curious to see you do some videos on some more controversial traditions involving African girls and women. Like female circumsision and Trokosi. Why do those Africans practice those things and should they be stopped?
I've become newly obsessed with this channel. So happy for its existence. I do appreciate in this video how you mentioned that the position of the Bugandan woman wasn't unique compared to the rest of the world. What you have observed here is simply intersectionality. The was privilege based on sex as well as class so everyone had a different way they had to navigate that society based on where they stood in both of those fonts. This type of intersectionality can be seen in the relationship between Black Men and White Women in the United States throughout history. Because of their gender, Black Men were held superior to Black women, however, due to race, they had to be more careful in their navigations with White Women. Ultimately, it is a human vice, to sort ourselves into these hierarchies because we end up putting everyone in an oddly shaped box.
My takeaway here: Caste and gender *were* highly correlated by a stratified and hierarchical system in Human Group Behavior. Women of upper Caste only face gender discrimination by the upper caste males. Women of the upper Caste fall in the ranks or positions, depending on how important they are, of their male husbands/partners by extension. Effectively, one would not want to antagonize the chief by disparaging (disrespecting) his female property. It is _Only_ because of this immediate proximity did the Royal Women wield higher Caste influence.
Good gistiry lesson. Thank you for sharing. However the co tent Co situated on women being sub seevants. Sone communities , women where very successful. Usiness women and leaders in there community.
Appreciate what you're doing but there weren't any comments on the DAHOMEY VIDEO that you uploaded I went there because of the film WOMAN KING just to see how much of it was fact or fiction 🧐
His artifacts- the skull, arrows and bow were shipped to British Monarchy library, not in British Library. He was a war worrior , lived around 15th century in Buganda Kingdom, born in Ssese island, surrounded by Lake victoria / lake Nalubaale. olubaale means atmosphere. Lubaale means all supernatural powers serving God/ Katonda- Creator, roaming around the atmosphere ( olubaale). Kibuuka Omumbaale fought Buganda's war by himself, destroying battallions of Bunyoro soldiers by use of arrows coming from unseen directions. Actually he turned into a war angel, flew in the cloud, and could pearce anyone because they didnt know. His end was thru a betrayal when a woman , a girlfriend betrayed him when she reported to Bunyoro King, Kibuuka's war tactics of flying in the clouds. So Bunyoro army directed theri arrows and spears into the cloud above, until he was shot, flew back to his big Mahogany tree, his command post, and died there. His arrow, bow and skull were collected by the colonialist and taken to Britain- Wakanda movie style.
@@ronmax4339 I’m a Muganda. The Buganda kingdom is an extension of the Bunyoro-Kitara empire that did not overthrow the empire of Kitara but simply conquered more of its regional territories and pushed the people out with its exceeding large and ever expanding population.
@@nguboyengwekaluvuyo6219 That's your response? To a legitimate concern from one Christian to another that there exists a legitimate concern that your own pride could send you to hell?
Buganda was an inland Kingdom. Far off from the coast but its reputation preceeded it. When the Arab traders started interacting with populations further away from the coast, they interacted with Baganda in various ways. It was a highly successful kingdom that conquered lands thereby expanding its territory through military conquests. It assimilated people from the said conquered territories & weak neighbouring groups and as result grew immensely. This can still be seen today in terms of population numbers. Through its reputation, it became a popular destination for Arab traders who ventured inland from the coast through caravans. Arabs influenced Buganda in various ways. Religion and language bear a lasting mark of this. Luganda the language of Baganda for example has words like book, watch among others. Because of being a popular destination for Arab traders, they started referring to the Kingdom as Wuganda instead of Buganda. This name stuck. When the early British "explorers" arrived at the coast of present day Kenya, they encountered a language that referred to Buganda as Wuganda which in turn became Uganda. It's important to note that the Buganda identity isn't one of simply being a tribe as some like to refer to it. Buganda was a nation and this was an identity of both ethnicity and nationality to them. In the Luganda language (the language of Baganda) there is no equivalent to the word tribe, the only one that exists is "Gwaanga" which translates to Nation. Buganda Kingdom does have a National Anthem and in it Baganda refer to Buganda as "Our Country" When the British arrived in Buganda, they found a highly civilised and well organised people with a centralised form of government that possesed all elements of a modern independent state. Whatever you can think of that an independent nation possesses, Buganda had and still has to date. Interacting with a group of people whose history is rife with insidiously exploitative Colonial tendencies coupled with an intent to wipe out indigenous forms of identity be it political, ethnic and spiritual was bound to cause problems. And cause catastrophic problems it did because Buganda was infiltrated both directly and indirectly through the employ of various methods. As a result, the Nation of Buganda sustained deep wounds that sit festering even today. This weakened state of affairs led to Buganda's leaders making decisions that favoured her survival, preservation and longevity for future generations. Some say it was betraya and that Buganda was responsible for the effects of British colonisation but I'll point them to Bunyoro Kingdom. You do what you must do to survive no matter how bad a hand you've been dealt. That includes recognising a force capable for crushing you beyond recovery. Buganda's leaders at the time had the foresight but Bunyoro didn't. The latter was a kingdom that was almost of similar might to Buganda but refused to preserve itself and today it's a shell of what it used to be. Buganda was forced into giving up her land and powers of the king, signing of various agreements that ushered in the legal system existing in Uganda today, from the British of course. Kings of Buganda who had patriotic sentiments and tried to stand up to British rule were either imprisoned or exiled one faced both. For those who want to look more into that Kabaka Muteesa II and Kabaka Mwanga are the two patriots in question. Both died in exile. With the British being able to subdue the strongest organised group of people (Baganda) in what we know today as Uganda, the communities/ tribes (nationalities) were then lamped together to form Uganda as we know it today. Buganda through Kabaka Muteesa II tried again towards Uganda's independence from the British to negotiate Buganda's independence from the Colonial creation that is Uganda but it was all in vain. This nationalistic identity that Baganda possessed all those centuries ago, remained under British rule and still does today. It's an issue for the central government as it was for the colonial government before "independence. Baganda take great pride in who they are which sometimes comes off as a threat or even an insult to those around them. They are fiercely protective of their monarch. Tensions sometimes boil over leading to unrest on the streets and this opens old wounds. So precisely put, Uganda owes its name to Buganda in a way but the two identities mean different things to different people.
@@nansubuga3253I’m a Muganda and everything you said was perfectly accurate. Thank you for breaking down our rich history so precisely and eloquently. I can tell you’ve done your research thoroughly.
Excellent information, however you reversed Patriarchal and Matriarchal in your Intro!!!??? You are aware that Patriarchal refers to Male, whereas Matriarchal is Female. Just to keep you informed!!!👍👍👍
Why do you talk about my family in past tense? It is truly great that you want to promote our culture. But talking about us like we’re a thing of the past comes about as a huge insult. Our royal women of Buganda “was”… No, our beloved wives, mothers and daughters are still strong girls and women today! Buganda kuntikku!🔥
The sheer number of racist black people, Afro centrists, and "Jesus was black" types in the comments of EVERY video is bothersome. You should make a video addressing it.
@@Kemetyu-Centered36 ...oh no, my melanin levels. What ever will I do? Look bro, you can hate all you want. But that doesn't make this "Egyptians were black" nonesene true. And frankly I don't see why people don't actually look at REAL black history instead. The richest man in human history was black. He had friggin slaves wearing gold. The dude bankrupted towns by devaluing money because he just... gave it to people. Why is THAT not talked about by you guys? It's always "oh Cleopatra may have had literal statues of her showing European characteristics, and coins which SHE HERSELF approved of, and sure she's straight up Greek, but dang it she was black because blah blah African = black and she ruled Egypt at one point." Like it never even dawned on y'all's mind that for much of history the Mediterranean was a massive trade center.
One source states Rome referred to Carthage as Africa. Another source states a tribe of people existed by the name of Ifriqiya. Either way it is foreign to the continent.
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I'm from Uganda and went to private school there with one of the princesses 👸 of the Buganda Kingdom and she was surprisingly normal that I didn't know she was a princess though not of the Queen but I still didn't know until the Queen came for parents day.
Wow!
This is the ignorance that most people don't know that many of these African people still have their queens and King titles among their ethnic groups and tribes!
Yeah, but Royalty is more or less ceremonial now without political power associated with it
I am the cousin of the princess from the Sebugwawo family Slyvia Nagginda is my aunt🩵 my sister is named after her Najjinda
Black women need to be loved and respected more everywhere
Let's start with ending female circumsision on the continent. Then stop Trokosi.
Facts!!
Especially lightskin
@@williamforsythe9180 nonsense!! grow up!!
Somebody is doing some serious brown-nosing.
The interplay of power and gender in pre-colonial African societies is something I’m obsessed with. As a huge fantasy nerd I’m always excited when I see that a writer or an artist has taken inspiration from traditional political structures. Great video as always, mate. 👌🏿
I think something we don't take into account is this was being recorded by outsiders.. we do not know how the restrictions on women were affected by the "visitors" themselves.. for all they knew.. a general order was made that women should remain housed &largely hidden whenever these suspicious white missionaries or merchants were around
@John Grigg What’s it called?
We need map illustrations/animations bro.. when you're talking about these great African countries it would be nice to see exactly where they are.. it adds a level of excitement to the videos which in turn draws in more fans viewers
Blessings 👊🏾🕶️
My people 🇺🇬
Otyoo!
@@royesiku4005 Gyendi!
Love Uganda! "What what and whatttt!"
Yessiirrrr!!!!
I recently shared your page in A Black Homeschool Group , hopefully you get a ton of new Subscribers!
Thanks for being supportive
Goog 👍👍
Am so proud to be a Ugandan 🇺🇬 muganda by tribe
Charlie wange ,feel you brah
Very interesting! I love the knowledge you give.
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I've always wanted to know this! Amazing 🤩 thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
Beautiful people!
I love Africa (I'm Greek, not that it matters)!
Africa it the gem of the earth, the oldest continent!
But also the most suppressed, exploited, undermined, this is why the west is funding wars, this why they don't want to African people, to overcome, starvation, diseases, poverty etc!
Because if they gaine the control of their countries, they will also they will have the control of the minerals!
The mine industries of Africa, if this was the case, the world wouldn't be the same.
The Buganda Kingdom still works this way
Normally the Queen of Uganda has to be from a Royal Clan and The Kabaka has no choice in the matter
The current Queen Sylvia was the first in 50 years and was a childhood friend of Mutesa II and they fell in love when she returned from 18 years living in The United States and London being raised by her grandparents .. I believe she has only one child from Mutesa II, Princess Katrina who I understand runs much of the business matter of The Kingdom
She is of the important Omusu Clan so tradition was not broken
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Sylvia_of_Buganda
Kabakas are notoriously polygamous but the other mothers are concubines and Queen Sylvia presides over an unknown number of step-children
A few years ago a much Revered Kraal Chief in Karamoja was killed at 54 years old and the eulogy published across Uganda plainly stated he was survived by some 84 wives, 123 children, and 2000 cows
The Kabaka likely has a herd numbering around 10,000
Thanks. You are one of the greats and a LEGEND !!!!
Let us Exalt the Women from our Ancient Civilizations.
they should make a serie about buganda
I'd be curious to see you do some videos on some more controversial traditions involving African girls and women. Like female circumsision and Trokosi. Why do those Africans practice those things and should they be stopped?
I just realized I'm already subscribed to this channel. You have my support here and on Tik Tok.
Great video as always 👍
Asante sana.
I've become newly obsessed with this channel. So happy for its existence. I do appreciate in this video how you mentioned that the position of the Bugandan woman wasn't unique compared to the rest of the world. What you have observed here is simply intersectionality. The was privilege based on sex as well as class so everyone had a different way they had to navigate that society based on where they stood in both of those fonts. This type of intersectionality can be seen in the relationship between Black Men and White Women in the United States throughout history. Because of their gender, Black Men were held superior to Black women, however, due to race, they had to be more careful in their navigations with White Women. Ultimately, it is a human vice, to sort ourselves into these hierarchies because we end up putting everyone in an oddly shaped box.
superior to black women please explain??
Oh snap, your covering my people. And my grandmothers family id a royal house: Wampamba!
POWERFUL ❤
Happy Friday
More power to you
Greetings from Néw Jersey, by way of Liberia
Thank you 😊 💓 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
You should do a video on a the modern day slave trade of africa, would be very informative.
Thank y’all
My takeaway here: Caste and gender *were* highly correlated by a stratified and hierarchical system in Human Group Behavior. Women of upper Caste only face gender discrimination by the upper caste males. Women of the upper Caste fall in the ranks or positions, depending on how important they are, of their male husbands/partners by extension. Effectively, one would not want to antagonize the chief by disparaging (disrespecting) his female property. It is _Only_ because of this immediate proximity did the Royal Women wield higher Caste influence.
Using the word “only” is too narrowing and leaves no room for nuance.
@@daughterofdiaspora Correction accepted. Please replace "Only" with Typically.
Thank you!
They still kneel. So do men for their king. Or literally, lay down. In Tooro for example.
So interesting!
Good gistiry lesson. Thank you for sharing. However the co tent Co situated on women being sub seevants. Sone communities , women where very successful. Usiness women and leaders in there community.
Power to the Women
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Merci!
The thumbnail??? Source??? I'd love to paint it. 😩
Appreciate what you're doing but there weren't any comments on the DAHOMEY VIDEO that you uploaded I went there because of the film WOMAN KING just to see how much of it was fact or fiction 🧐
Kabaka!!
Very interesting. 👍😊
Please tell us about Kibuka Omubale the Samson of Buganda
His artifacts- the skull, arrows and bow were shipped to British Monarchy library, not in British Library. He was a war worrior , lived around 15th century in Buganda Kingdom, born in Ssese island, surrounded by Lake victoria / lake Nalubaale. olubaale means atmosphere. Lubaale means all supernatural powers serving God/ Katonda- Creator, roaming around the atmosphere ( olubaale). Kibuuka Omumbaale fought Buganda's war by himself, destroying battallions of Bunyoro soldiers by use of arrows coming from unseen directions. Actually he turned into a war angel, flew in the cloud, and could pearce anyone because they didnt know. His end was thru a betrayal when a woman , a girlfriend betrayed him when she reported to Bunyoro King, Kibuuka's war tactics of flying in the clouds. So Bunyoro army directed theri arrows and spears into the cloud above, until he was shot, flew back to his big Mahogany tree, his command post, and died there. His arrow, bow and skull were collected by the colonialist and taken to Britain- Wakanda movie style.
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Can you please make a video of the kitara kingdom
It was a empire which was overthrown by Buganda kingdom
@@ronmax4339 I’m a Muganda. The Buganda kingdom is an extension of the Bunyoro-Kitara empire that did not overthrow the empire of Kitara but simply conquered more of its regional territories and pushed the people out with its exceeding large and ever expanding population.
God is a black woman 🙌🏽❤️
God is beyond race and I hope you recognize that and come to Christ rather than your own prideful race/sexism.
@@spiffygonzales5160 😂😂😂
@@nguboyengwekaluvuyo6219
That's your response? To a legitimate concern from one Christian to another that there exists a legitimate concern that your own pride could send you to hell?
Thank you !
Our ancestors 👑
Zaghawa tribe of Sudan next!
Can you make a video about win cannabis use in African history the first black to use the plant
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Stay black....this is some good black education.
So Uganda first was called Ubanda
I'm sorry Buganda
Buganda was an inland Kingdom. Far off from the coast but its reputation preceeded it. When the Arab traders started interacting with populations further away from the coast, they interacted with Baganda in various ways. It was a highly successful kingdom that conquered lands thereby expanding its territory through military conquests. It assimilated people from the said conquered territories & weak neighbouring groups and as result grew immensely. This can still be seen today in terms of population numbers.
Through its reputation, it became a popular destination for Arab traders who ventured inland from the coast through caravans. Arabs influenced Buganda in various ways. Religion and language bear a lasting mark of this. Luganda the language of Baganda for example has words like book, watch among others. Because of being a popular destination for Arab traders, they started referring to the Kingdom as Wuganda instead of Buganda. This name stuck. When the early British "explorers" arrived at the coast of present day Kenya, they encountered a language that referred to Buganda as Wuganda which in turn became Uganda.
It's important to note that the Buganda identity isn't one of simply being a tribe as some like to refer to it. Buganda was a nation and this was an identity of both ethnicity and nationality to them. In the Luganda language (the language of Baganda) there is no equivalent to the word tribe, the only one that exists is "Gwaanga" which translates to Nation. Buganda Kingdom does have a National Anthem and in it Baganda refer to Buganda as "Our Country"
When the British arrived in Buganda, they found a highly civilised and well organised people with a centralised form of government that possesed all elements of a modern independent state. Whatever you can think of that an independent nation possesses, Buganda had and still has to date.
Interacting with a group of people whose history is rife with insidiously exploitative Colonial tendencies coupled with an intent to wipe out indigenous forms of identity be it political, ethnic and spiritual was bound to cause problems. And cause catastrophic problems it did because Buganda was infiltrated both directly and indirectly through the employ of various methods. As a result, the Nation of Buganda sustained deep wounds that sit festering even today. This weakened state of affairs led to Buganda's leaders making decisions that favoured her survival, preservation and longevity for future generations. Some say it was betraya and that Buganda was responsible for the effects of British colonisation but I'll point them to Bunyoro Kingdom. You do what you must do to survive no matter how bad a hand you've been dealt. That includes recognising a force capable for crushing you beyond recovery. Buganda's leaders at the time had the foresight but Bunyoro didn't. The latter was a kingdom that was almost of similar might to Buganda but refused to preserve itself and today it's a shell of what it used to be. Buganda was forced into giving up her land and powers of the king, signing of various agreements that ushered in the legal system existing in Uganda today, from the British of course. Kings of Buganda who had patriotic sentiments and tried to stand up to British rule were either imprisoned or exiled one faced both. For those who want to look more into that Kabaka Muteesa II and Kabaka Mwanga are the two patriots in question. Both died in exile.
With the British being able to subdue the strongest organised group of people (Baganda) in what we know today as Uganda, the communities/ tribes (nationalities) were then lamped together to form Uganda as we know it today. Buganda through Kabaka Muteesa II tried again towards Uganda's independence from the British to negotiate Buganda's independence from the Colonial creation that is Uganda but it was all in vain. This nationalistic identity that Baganda possessed all those centuries ago, remained under British rule and still does today. It's an issue for the central government as it was for the colonial government before "independence. Baganda take great pride in who they are which sometimes comes off as a threat or even an insult to those around them. They are fiercely protective of their monarch. Tensions sometimes boil over leading to unrest on the streets and this opens old wounds.
So precisely put, Uganda owes its name to Buganda in a way but the two identities mean different things to different people.
@@nansubuga3253I’m a Muganda and everything you said was perfectly accurate. Thank you for breaking down our rich history so precisely and eloquently. I can tell you’ve done your research thoroughly.
So where did Queen Califia hail from??
She never actually lived. She’s a character from a story about a Moorish princess. It is a great story
@@vonaye are you sure though ?
Legalize cannabis international
Power rests in the hands of those with the ability to enforce it
Sus thing to say……? Chattel Slavery etc
Excellent information, however you reversed Patriarchal and Matriarchal in your Intro!!!??? You are aware that Patriarchal refers to Male, whereas Matriarchal is Female. Just to keep you informed!!!👍👍👍
Why do you talk about my family in past tense?
It is truly great that you want to promote our culture. But talking about us like we’re a thing of the past comes about as a huge insult.
Our royal women of Buganda “was”…
No, our beloved wives, mothers and daughters are still strong girls and women today!
Buganda kuntikku!🔥
Finally lol
I have alot to tell you.
0:02 Barack Obama’s on the left
Not bad, but your voice..a bit more emotion, please.
The sheer number of racist black people, Afro centrists, and "Jesus was black" types in the comments of EVERY video is bothersome. You should make a video addressing it.
@@Kemetyu-Centered36
...oh no, my melanin levels. What ever will I do?
Look bro, you can hate all you want. But that doesn't make this "Egyptians were black" nonesene true. And frankly I don't see why people don't actually look at REAL black history instead. The richest man in human history was black. He had friggin slaves wearing gold. The dude bankrupted towns by devaluing money because he just... gave it to people.
Why is THAT not talked about by you guys? It's always "oh Cleopatra may have had literal statues of her showing European characteristics, and coins which SHE HERSELF approved of, and sure she's straight up Greek, but dang it she was black because blah blah African = black and she ruled Egypt at one point."
Like it never even dawned on y'all's mind that for much of history the Mediterranean was a massive trade center.
Christ is a "black" man. Israelites were "black".
Is even the word African from that continent or is it a white man word?
"a white man word"
....wtf?
One source states Rome referred to Carthage as Africa.
Another source states a tribe of people existed by the name of Ifriqiya.
Either way it is foreign to the continent.
Some expolorer guy changed the name from whatever it was to Africa.
@@Kya1942 l