Author: Immaculate N. Kizza
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786456051
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Baganda people of Uganda enjoy an extraordinarily rich oral tradition, which serves as a window into their culture, history, and experiences as a people. This comprehensive, multigenre work is both a study of the Baganda people's oral literature--framed within the broader contexts of the African oral tradition genre, modern African literature, and global literary studies--and a collection of representative stories. Cultural explanations throughout the text explore the living culture of this unique East African nation. Particular attention is paid to the history of Uganda, thus placing the oral tradition within its proper context. An appendix offers sample Luganda songs.
The Oral Tradition of the Baganda of Uganda
Author: Immaculate N. Kizza
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786456051
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Baganda people of Uganda enjoy an extraordinarily rich oral tradition, which serves as a window into their culture, history, and experiences as a people. This comprehensive, multigenre work is both a study of the Baganda people's oral literature--framed within the broader contexts of the African oral tradition genre, modern African literature, and global literary studies--and a collection of representative stories. Cultural explanations throughout the text explore the living culture of this unique East African nation. Particular attention is paid to the history of Uganda, thus placing the oral tradition within its proper context. An appendix offers sample Luganda songs.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786456051
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Baganda people of Uganda enjoy an extraordinarily rich oral tradition, which serves as a window into their culture, history, and experiences as a people. This comprehensive, multigenre work is both a study of the Baganda people's oral literature--framed within the broader contexts of the African oral tradition genre, modern African literature, and global literary studies--and a collection of representative stories. Cultural explanations throughout the text explore the living culture of this unique East African nation. Particular attention is paid to the history of Uganda, thus placing the oral tradition within its proper context. An appendix offers sample Luganda songs.
The Ideas of Ekibi in Baganda Oral Tradition and Their Implications for the Pre-colonial Society
Author: Olivia Nassaka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uganda
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uganda
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Oral Literary Tradition in Uganda
Author: John C. Ssennyondo Musaazi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, Ugandan
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, Ugandan
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Performing Community
Author: Dominica Dipio
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, African
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, African
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Kingship and State
Author: Christopher Wrigley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. He has written an elegant and wide-ranging study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. He has written an elegant and wide-ranging study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.
Twilight Tales of the Black Baganda
Author: Ruth B. Hurditch Fisher
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Studies in the oral traditions of the Baganda
Twilight tales of the black Baganda
Author: Ruth Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bunyoro-Kitara
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bunyoro-Kitara
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kintu
Author: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786073781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
In this epic tale of fate, fortune and legacy, Jennifer Makumbi vibrantly brings to life this corner of Africa and this colourful family as she reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. The year is 1750. Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda kingdom. Along the way he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. Blending oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break free from the burden of their past to produce a majestic tale of clan and country – a modern classic.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786073781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
In this epic tale of fate, fortune and legacy, Jennifer Makumbi vibrantly brings to life this corner of Africa and this colourful family as she reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. The year is 1750. Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda kingdom. Along the way he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. Blending oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break free from the burden of their past to produce a majestic tale of clan and country – a modern classic.
Twilight Tales of the Black Baganda
Author: Ruth B. Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ganda (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ganda (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description