The Traditional Baganda Womens Dress The history of the Busuuti and the Kanzu can only be written by the Baganda. It doest take all these many words, just look at the pictures of the 1870s, you will see the first transition from bark cloth had already taken place. In Buganda, before the colonialists, people did not believe much in copyrights, when a person designed or created something, it became a property of the nation. Just like it happens elsewhere but 50 years after the death of the inventor. The Gomesi gentleman had a fabric shop - such shops usually had tailors outside and in the neighborhood. The busuuti is a kade (complete traditional wear) with sleeves. Kade was worn on occassions with a sala (akakaaya). The idea of sleeves for both the kanzu and the busuuti was taken from the first Arabs and was done in the palace for years before it was adopted by the boarding schools ( on the short girl-dresses. From the boarding schools, it reached the grown women.
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