Kato Kintu

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] known in Bunyoro as Kato Kimera 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]

  1. ^ History of Buganda: From the Foundation of the Kingdom To 1900. CRC Press. 1972. pp. 35, 94, 95. ISBN 9780841901148.
  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. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  4. ^ The Kings of Buganda. East African Publishing House. 1971. p. 42. ISBN 9780800216337.
  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. ISBN 9780841903777.
  7. ^ Afrique des Grands lacs. Zone Books. 2003. p. 113. ISBN 9781890951344.
  8. ^ Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda. Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-19-506436-0.
  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.