MC_A Concise History of Africa

A Concise History of Africa

Bunyoro was the largest state in the area in the 16th–17th centuries, ruled by a kabaka (king) and extending from Rwanda to Tanzania. Unlike the West African states, Bunyoro was a cattle-based society, OPPOSITE: The Cwezi people lived near Lake Victoria. BELOW: The Kitara empire reached as far north as Tanzania. This is Mount Kilimanjaro.

historical interpretation of oral traditions, but more recent archeological surveys have stuck to evaluating the evidence as it stands. Oral traditions in Africa often attempt to explain origins and account for earthworks and other such sites. Bantu-speaking people with pronounced ideas of social and political organization, known as the Cwezi, came into south-west Uganda in around 500 BC, where

they lived by agriculture, metalworking, and pottery. By the 14th century, complex and advanced states had developed between Lake Victoria and Lake Edward, the ancient Kitara empire extending over modern Uganda and northern Tanzania, but was weakened when it was invaded by the Nilotic Luo people from Sudan. Successor states included the kingdoms of Bachwezi, Bunyoro, Ankole, and Buganda, all of which were in Uganda.

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