Uganda

Straddling the equator by Lake Victoria, Uganda holds kingdoms such as Buganda alongside rich barkcloth and music traditions.

Textile & dress Building & habitat Music & dance Language & oral Food & cooking

Knowledge in this place

Barkcloth making

Barkcloth making

Mutuba fig bark is beaten into a soft cloth used in Buganda for ceremony and dress.

Textile & dress

Kasubi royal tombs

Kasubi royal tombs

Grass-thatched reed structures form the burial site of the Buganda kings.

Building & habitat

Endingidi tube fiddle

Endingidi tube fiddle

A single-string bowed fiddle central to Baganda folk music.

Luganda language

Luganda language

A Bantu language with a rich proverb tradition, widely spoken in central Uganda.

Language & oral

Rolex street food

Rolex street food

A rolled chapati filled with fried egg and vegetables, a ubiquitous street snack.