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

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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79990

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Religious Tract Society

en_US London

Subject

en_US GR360.U4 K3 1930

en_US Uganda

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole