Womunafu's Bunafu : : A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community / / David William Cohen.
This book reconstructs the career of Womunafu, the son of a ruler of a small state in what is today Uganda. Recognized as an infant to be possessed by Mukama, the spirit of a heroic figure in the tradition of the wider region, Womunafu was placed in a large enclosure, one of four he would occupy fro...
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