Batembuzi

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The Batembuzi is a Nilotic civilisation group, ostensibly originating from the Lake Victoria-Nyanza region in Eastern Africa. Tribal migratory expansion led this group westward around the Lake. The Batembuzi, unlike the Maasai, who kept their native languages and associations, adopted a wide variety of regional Bantu inspired languages. They organized their civilization along the lines of a loosely structured set of confederated of proto-state--if not stateless--societies. The strongest association with the expansion of this pre-colonial African society is the creation of the Bunyoro-Kitara civilisations by emigrating pastoralists who usurped political control over the pre-existing agriculturalist African tribes.