Society of the One Almighty God

Society of the One Almighty God

The Society of the One Almighty God, popularly known as the Malakite Church and with its members often called the Malakites, was a Christian church in Uganda formed by Musajjakawa Malaki in 1914.

The Church was strongly anti-colonialist and anti-Western, rejecting among other things Western medicine. Most of the members of this Church were Baganda people.

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