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Semei Kakungulu
Semei Kakungulu was a Ganda military leader who served the British in extending colonial rule over eastern Uganda. After fighting against Bunyoro in the 1890s, he conquered much of the region around Mount Elgon and Lake Kyoga, ruling it from Mbale, and in 1906 the British made him president of the council of Busoga chiefs. In later life he founded the Abayudaya, a community practising Judaism.
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