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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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Kintu is also presented in Kizza's 2011 The Oral Tradition of Baganda of Uganda. [7] In this version of the Kintu creation myth, the importance of the story is placed upon Nambi; in the beginning of the myth, it is Nambi who falls in love with Kintu upon their first meeting in Baganda and convinces Kintu to seek approval from her father in ...
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]
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 ...
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.
Tropical Fish is a short story collection, published in 2005, by Ugandan author Doreen Baingana. [1] [2] It revolves around the lives of a family based in Entebbe, Uganda.It follows Christine, Patti and Rosa the daughters of a relatively well off family whose father, a senior government official, becomes an alcoholic and loses everything starting with his job.
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (born 1960s) is a Ugandan-British novelist and short story writer. [1] Her doctoral novel, The Kintu Saga, was shortlisted [2] and won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013. [3] It was published by Kwani Trust in 2014 under the title Kintu. [4] [5] [6] Her short story collection, Manchester Happened, was published in ...