Tracing the origin of the people of Kigezi and their customs

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While many Kigezi people copied the Baganda, adopted their dress, their diet, their religions and their administrative methods, they resented Kiganda pretensions and resisted Luganda as a language.

The 1975 book A History of Kigezi in South-West Uganda by Donald Denoon is an authoritative book on Kigezi region.

It was previously considered the best written book on Kigezi District. But that is only because those who have read Kigezi and its People by Paul Ngologoza did not take that rather informal poll.

Although…