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Womunafu's Bunafu : :A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community by Cohen, David William is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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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 that came to be known as Bunafu. In considering his life,
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Cohen, David William
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691030937
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Political Science, Memoir, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25