Kato Kintu

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Ssekabaka Kato Kintu
Kabaka of Buganda
Reignlate 13th century
PredecessorNone
SuccessorChwa I of Buganda
BornUganda
DiedMid-14th century
Nnono, Busujju
Burial
Nnono, Busujju
SpouseNambi Nantuttululu
FatherKagona
MotherNamukana

Kato Kintu Kakulukuku[1] (fl. Late 13th century)[2] was the first kabaka (king) of the Kingdom of Buganda. "Kintu" is an adopted by-name, chosen for Kintu, the name of the first person on earth in Buganda mythology. Kato Kintu gave himself the name "Kintu" to associate himself with the "father of all people",[3][4][5][6][7][8] and he may have renamed his wife, from Nantuttululu to Nambi, because that was Kintu's wife's name.[9]

Background and reign[]

Kintu was born at Bukasa Village, in the Ssese Islands, on Lake Nalubaale. He established his capital at Nnono, Busujju County. He fathered one child.

  • Prince (Omulangira) Mulanga

The final days[]

Kabaka Kato Kintu[10] died at age thirty. He was buried at Nnono, Busujju County.[citation needed]

Succession table[]

Preceded by
None 		King of Buganda
early fourteenth century 		Succeeded by
Chwa I

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ History of Buganda: From the Foundation of the Kingdom To 1900. CRC Press. 1972. pp. 35, 94, 95.
  2. ^ Shaping the Society Christianity and Culiture: Special Reference to the African Culture of Buganda. Author House. 2012. p. 94.
  3. ^ "The Founding of Buganda". Buganda.com. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  4. ^ The Kings of Buganda. East African Publishing House. 1971. p. 42.
  5. ^ The historical tradition of Busoga, Mukama and Kintu. Clarendon Press. 1972. pp. 86, 87, 88.
  6. ^ Chronology, Migration, and Drought in Interlacustrine Africa. Africana Pub. Co. 1978. p. 150.
  7. ^ Afrique des Grands lacs. Zone Books. 2003. p. 113.
  8. ^ Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda. Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 95.
  9. ^ Kizza, Immaculate N. (2010). The Oral Tradition of the Baganda of Uganda: A Study and Anthology of Legends, Myths, Epigrams and Folktales. McFarland. pp. 22–23. ISBN 9780786456055.
  10. ^ Dictionary of African Historical Biography, University of California Press, 1989, pp. 72, 109

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