Danieri Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II Mukasa was Kabaka

Kabaka of Buganda

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 from 1884 until 1888 and from 1889 until 1897. He was the thirty-first (31st) Kabaka of Buganda

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He was born at Nakawa

Nakawa

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 in 1868. His father was Kabaka Mukaabya Walugembe Muteesa I Kayiira

Muteesa I of Buganda

Muteesa I Mukaabya Walugembe Kayiira was Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda, from 1856 until 1884. He was the thirtieth Kabaka of Buganda.-Claim to the throne:...

, Kabaka of Buganda, who reigned between 1856 and 1884. His mother was Naabakyaala Abisaagi Baagal'ayaze, the tenth wife of his father's eighty five wives. He ascend

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ed to the throne

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 on October 18, 1884, after the death of his father.