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Other Buganda folktales include the story of Walukaga the blacksmith, Mpobe the hunter, and Kasanke the little red bird. [10] [11] Folktales in Buganda are also about hares, leopards, rabbits and other animals that live in the wild and one of the famous folk stories is about wango and wakayima. Wango is a leopard while wakayima is a rabbit.
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Nambi is seen in The Quest for Kintu and the Search for Peace: Mythology and Morality in Nineteenth-Century Buganda, [2] alongside her husband Kintu. It is said in this journal that in Nineteenth-century Buganda, political leaders tried to unite back the kingdom by re-telling the creation myth and reminding those living in Buganda of where their constitutional and social roots come from.
The creation myth of the people of Buganda, Uganda, includes a figure called Kintu, [1] who was the first person on earth, and the first man to wander the plains of Uganda alone. He has also sometimes been known as God, or the father of all people who created the first kingdoms.
Lukwata (Luganda for 'sea serpent', [2] the nominal form of kukwata, lit. 'to seize') is a legendary water-dwelling creature in Baganda folklore, said to be found in Lake Victoria of Uganda. [3] It has been described as 20–30 feet long, with dark smooth skin and a rounded head, and known to attack fishermen and boats. [ 4 ]
This is a list of notable books written by writers hailing from or living in Uganda . Abyssinian Chronicles (1998) by Moses Isegawa. [1] The African Saga (1998) by Susan Nalugwa Kiguli. [9] Building the nation and other poems (2000) by Christopher Henry Muwanga Barlow. [3] Fate of the Banished (1997) by Julius Ocwinyo. [4]
Summary of Mozambican Refugee Accounts of Principally Conflict-Related Experience in Mozambique Report Submitted to: Ambassador Jonathan Moore Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs
In Uganda, the kanzu [27] is the national dress of men in the country. Women from central and eastern Uganda wear a dress with a sash tied around the waist and large exaggerated shoulders called a gomesi. [28] Women from the west and north-west drape a long cloth around their waists and shoulders called suuka. Women from the south-west wear a ...