The Baganda

Record summary

John Roscoe’s The Baganda records Buganda traditions concerning Katonda, Kintu, Walumbe, spirits, ritual, and natural phenomena. It is relevant to luminous-motif research because Buganda religious narratives and explanations of thunder, lightning, heavenly authority, and sacred power can be compared with East African creator and sky traditions. The work is an early ethnography written under missionary and colonial conditions, so its categories and translations require scrutiny. Some material may represent court traditions, local religious practice, or Roscoe’s synthesis rather than a stable canonical myth.