Womunafu's Bunafu: A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community

by David William Cohen

Book Overview

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 from 1830 until his death in 1906.

During his long life Womunafu had many wives and children and achieved a position of dominance in the village...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691615853
• ISBN13: 9780691615851
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"