Item
The Tales of Sir Apolo: Uganda Folklore and Proverbs
- Title
- en_US The Tales of Sir Apolo: Uganda Folklore and Proverbs
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US With an Introduction by the Translator, The Rev. Canon F. Rowling
- Creator
- en_US Kagwa, Apolo See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Lumley, Savile
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:11:35Z
- en_US 1999-05
- en_US 1930?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:11:35Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1930
- Abstract
- en_US This book is by and about Sir Apolo Kagwa, who rose from humble origins in Uganda to be prime minister and died in 1927. Early chapters describe his youth and life. The tales appear on 25-86 and are followed by several pages of Luganda proverbs. The early tales tend to be etiological. There are one or two simple small illustrations for each story, besides the frontispiece of Kagwa holding a huge ivory tusk. Most of the stories qualify as fables. Particularly good are The Hare and the Elephant (39), The Clever Mongoose (44), and The Cooking-Pot and the Drum (52). Good new material for me includes The Stolen Pledge (65). Many of the stories climax in a proverb, which Kagwa then explains. I do not think that I have ever seen thicker paper used in a book! This book seems the size of a regular book but is less than 100 pages long.
- Identifier
- en_US 4318 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US The Religious Tract Society
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US GR360.U4 K3 1930 See all items with this value
- en_US Uganda See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books