Archive:Clans of Baganda

Template:Short description Every Muganda must belong to one of the 52 clans of Baganda.

List of Clans of Baganda

The clans are: Template:Div col

1. Abalangira (Royals)
2. Babiito b'e Kooki
3. Babiito b'e Kiziba
4. Babiito b'e Kibulala
5. Butiko (Mushrooms)
6. Ffumbe (Civet Cat)
7. Kasanke (Ruddy Waxbill, African Firefinch)
8. Kasimba (Genet Cat)
9. Kayozi (Jumping Rat)
10. Kibe (Black-backed Jackal)
11. Kibuba (Morning dew pad)
12. Kinyomo (Large black ant)
13. Kiwere (purple dye plant)
14. Kkobe (Air potato)
15. Lugave (Pangolin)
16. Lukato (Stilleto)
17. Mazzi ga Kisasi (Porch water)
18. Mbogo (Buffalo)
19. Mbuzi (Goat)
20. Mbwa (Dog)
21. Mmamba Gabunga (Lungfish)
22. Mmamba Kakoboza (Lungfish)
23. Mpeewo (Oribi Antelope)
24. Mpindi (Cowpea)
25. Mpologoma (Lion)
26. Musu (Edible Greater Cane Rat)
27. Mutima Musagi
28. Mutima Muyanja (Heart)
29. Nnakinsige (Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus) or brown grass finch)
30. Ndiga (Sheep)
31. Ndiisa (lark)
32. Ngabi Nnyunga (Bushbuck)
33. Ngabi Nsamba (Antelope)
34. Ngeye (Colobus Monkey)
35. Ngo (Leopard)
36. Njaza (Bohor Reedbuck)
37. Njobe (Marshbuck Sitatunga Antelope)
38. Njovu (Elephant)
39. Nkebuka (Excrement)
40. Nkejje (Sprat)
41. Nkerebwe (African Bush Squirrel)
42. Nkima (Vervet Monkey)
43. Nkula (Rhinocerous)
44. Nkusu (African Parrot)
45. Nnamuŋŋoona (Pied Crow)
46. Nnyonyi Nnyange (Cattle Egret)
47. Nseenene (Ruspolia differens, nipidula)
48. Nsuma (Snout Fish)
49. Nsunu (Uganda Kob)
50. Nswaswa (Monitor Lizard)
51. Ntalaganya (Blue Duiker)
52. Nte (Ente Eteriiko Mukira oba Enkunku (The tailless Cow ))
53. Nvubu (Hippopotamus)
54. Nvuma (underwater spiky seed)
55. Ŋŋaali (Ngaali) (Crested Crane)
56. Ŋŋonge (Ngonge) (Otter)

Nnansangwa (Original Clans)

The oldest clans trace their lineage to Bakiranze Kivebulaya, who is supposed to have ruled in the region from about 400 AD until about 1300 AD. These seven clans are referred to as the Nansangwa, or the indigenous:

1. 

   Lugave Clan

   Lugave (Pangolin)
2. Mmamba (Lungfish)
3. Ngeye (Colobus monkey)
4. Njaza (Reedbuck)
5. Ennyange (Cattle egret)
6. Fumbe (Civet cat)
7. Ngonge (Otter)
8. Mpindi (Cowpea)
9. Ngabi Ennyunga (Bushbuck)

Kintu migration

The Abalasangeye dynasty came to power through the conquests of Kabaka of Buganda ssekabaka Kintu, which are estimated to have occurred sometime between 1200 and 1400 AD.

Vervet Monkey in Uganda

Thirteen clans that are believed to have come with Kintu:

1. Ekkobe (Liana fruit)
2. Mbwa (Dog)
3. Mpeewo (Oribi antelope)
4. Mpologoma (Lion)
5. Namuŋoona (Pied crow)
6. Ngo (Leopard)
7. Ŋonge (Otter)
8. Nte (cow)
9. Nkejje (Cichlids)
10. Nkima (Vervet monkey)
11. Ntalaganya (Blue duiker)
12. Nvubu (Hippopotamus)
13. Nvuma (Pearl)

The descendants of the Basimba people (also known as Bashimba) which is a Bisa and Ambo nickname of the Clan of the leopards, the bena Ngo in Zambia, who settled at Mpogo, Sironko District, are among the Ngo Clan group that come along with Kabaka Kato Kintu in his immigration.

Kato Kimera migration

Around 1370 AD another wave of immigration began, assisted by Kabaka Kimera, who was the son of Omulangira Kalemeera. Kabaka Kimera was born in Kibulala, and returned to Buganda with Jjumba of the Nkima clan and other Buganda elders.

These eleven clans are:

1. Bugeme
2. Butiko (Mushrooms)
3. Kasimba (Genet)
4. Kayozi (Jerboa)
5. Kibe (Fox)
6. Mbogo (Buffalo)
7. Musu/Omusu (Edible rat)
8. Ngabi Ensamba(Antelope)
9. Nkerebwe (Jungle Shrew)
10. Nsuma (snout fish)
11. Nseenene (Copiphorini)