Wanema

Ssese Islands lubaale, father of the war-god Kibuka and of Mukasa, the great lake-god of Victoria Nyanza. The Ssese island shrines were the source from which the principal Baganda gods came to the mainland kingdom.

Children

• Kibuka
• Mukasa

Domains

• ssese islands lubaale
• progenitor of the balubaale

Powers

• Father the great lubaale of the lake and of war
• Afflict and heal lameness and physical handicap

Relations

• ancestor of: Mukasa

Sources

• Roscoe, The Baganda (1911), ch. on the gods (balubaale)
• Kaggwa, Ekitabo kye mpisa za Baganda (The Customs of the Baganda, 1934 tr.)
• Roscoe, The Baganda (1911): Kibuka and Mukasa as sons of Wanema of Ssese