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Ssuuna II of Buganda

Ssuuna II Kalema Kasinjo Mukaabya Sekkyungwa Muteesa Sewankambo Walugembe Mig'ekyaamye Lukeberwa Kyetutumula Magulunyondo Luwambya Omutanda Sseggwanga was the 29th Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda from 1832 until 1856.

His name is also spelt as Suna (in old documents) and as Suuna (in many English documents).

He was born at Bujuuko Hill around 1820. He was the son of Kabaka Kamaanya Kadduwamala, Kabaka of Buganda, who reigned between 1814 and 1832. His mother was Nakkazi Kannyange, the twenty-third of his father's thirty-eight wives.

He ascended to the throne upon the death of his father in 1832, having executed all his brothers in order to remain as the sole heir.

He established his capital on Mulago Hill.

Kabaka Ssuuna II continued in the tradition started by his grandfather and copied by his father; the practice of marrying an extraordinary number of wives. Ssuuna II outdid all of them. He is reported to have married one hundred forty eight wives. Like in many areas of the world (royal intermarriage), the Kabakas of Buganda used marriage as a tool to create and cement bonds and alliances with rivals especially from the other clans of Buganda as well as important chiefs. This ensured that the next Kabaka would be a relative of anyone of Buganda's clans and possibly of an important chief. So every clan and important chief tried to ensure that one of its daughters became a wife to the current Kabaka.

As expected, the Kabaka having married 148 wives, he fathered a large number of children. Written accounts put the number as high as 218 to 221 children.

This reference lists the names of all of them, giving the names of their mothers in most cases.[citation needed]

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