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Ffumbe Clan

Ffumbe Clan of Buganda

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ124632499 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ffumbe clan, headed by Omutaka Walusimbi, was one of the native (Nnansangwa) clans in Buganda or Central Uganda. The members of the Ffumbe clan are called Ab'effumbe (Singular: Ow'effumbe). The members of this clan are Baganda people and speak Luganda language.

Titles

Walusimbi is the title of the head of the Ffumbe clan. Omutaka is a general title for each head of a clan.

Clan totems

The primary totem, Omuziro, is the African civet. The secondary totem, akabbiro, is a frog (Kikere). A member of the Ffumbe clan is forbidden from eating or injuring the African Civet cat.

Structure

The Kabaka (Ssaabataka)

The Kabaka of Buganda is the head of the clan structure and the heads of the clans, the Bataka (plural form of Omutaka)) are under him.

Clan Head (Ow'Akasolya)

The head of the Kasolya (roof) is Omutaka Walusimbi.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 141-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ffumbe, Clan and Buganda is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ffumbe Clan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.