Books by John Roscoe

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

First published in 1911, this account of the Baganda tribe of Uganda by missionary John Roscoe remains an important anthropological work. Speaking their language and with influential native friends, he was able to collect information on their culture before it was transformed by colonial rule and conversion to Christianity.