The Two Kingdoms of the LakeBuganda and Bunyoro · 17th-19th centuries“Come to the lake country, where two crowns watched each other for generations before the stranger chose a side.”Bunyoro-Kitara was the older giant of the Great Lakes, ruled by the omukama and rich in memory, cattle, iron and salt. Buganda began smaller, close enough to learn from Bunyoro and close enough to resent its shadow.The lesson the elders kept: A neighbour's quarrel can become an empire's weapon. Buganda and Bunyoro teach that local rivalry is never only local once outside power learns how to use it.