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Prince Kaboyo

Toro leader
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Prince Kaboyo was a leader of the Toro people, who are an interlacustrine Bantu-speaking group inhabiting a plateau in southwestern Uganda. Around 1830, Kaboyo led the Toro in seceding from the Bunyoro kingdom, establishing their own kingdom. He received royal regalia from the Bunyoro rulers and gained their support as he consolidated and expanded his territory. The Toro kingdom was later temporarily reconquered by the Bunyoro king Kabarega in the late 1880s. In the 1890s, British colonizers restored a Toro prince to the throne in exchange for loyalty and rights to forest and mineral resources. The Toro kingdom functioned as a subordinate local government during the colonial era and was abolished by the Ugandan central government in 1966.1

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  1. Toro
  2. Uganda - Bunyoro and Buganda
  3. Uganda - Obote’s first presidency
  4. Joseph Kabila: Top Questions
  5. Bunyoro

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