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The Buganda economy: why bananas fed a state

History and Citizenship · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

How a banana surplus on well-watered soils released people from farming and paid for the offices of a state.

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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. Wanga, Buganda and Nyamwezi
  2. What these civilizations contribute today
  3. Locating Wanga, Buganda and Nyamwezi
  4. Wanga political organisation
  5. Wanga economy and society
  6. Buganda political organisation
  7. The Buganda economy: why bananas fed a state
  8. Clans, king and royal women in Buganda
  9. The Nyamwezi: from ntemi chiefdoms to Mirambo
  10. The Nyamwezi caravan trade