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The BagandaBook 1911 • Roscoe, John
Ganda • Africa > Eastern Africa
Roscoe, who spent the years from 1893 to 1911 as a missionary among the Baganda, has endeavored to present a picture of Ganda culture as it existed prior to the changes introduced by contact w...The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectoratebook chapter 1924 • Roscoe, John
Bagisu • Africa > Eastern Africa
This is an early account of Bagisu ethnography, written by a missionary-anthropologist, covering roughly the period of the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. In some particulars t...The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectoratebook chapter 1924 • Roscoe, John & Mackie Ethnological Expedition To Central Africa, 1919-1920
Rwandans • Africa > Central Africa
The selection from this book which has been processed for the file constitutes chapters 28-31, pp. 184-199, and deals almost exclusively with the Batuse (Batussi) of Ruanda. Information contai...The Bakitara or BanyoroBook 1923 • Roscoe, John (1861-1932) & Mackie Ethnological Expedition To Central Africa, 1919-1920
Banyoro • Africa > Eastern Africa
This is an early ethnography of the Nyoro, which mostly focuses on the royal household and palace rituals. Much of the information is based on observation of rituals and material cultural prac...The customs of the BagandaBook 1934 • Kagwa, Apolo et al.
Ganda • Africa > Eastern Africa
Sir Apolo Kagwa, a prominent citizen of Buganda, having been both regent and prime minister, originally wrote in his native language, Luganda. The general character of the book is well describ...