Ba-kawre

Ba-kawre is the eponymous figure of a tale in the Zaghawa oral repertoire recorded by Marie-Jose and Joseph Tubiana. He belongs to the corpus's cast of human protagonists whose fortunes turn on cunning rather than force, the quality these tales prize as highly as bravery.

Domains

• trickery

Powers

• prevails through cunning

Sources

• M.-J. & J. Tubiana, Contes zaghawa du Tchad: trente-sept contes et deux legendes (1961; repr. L'Harmattan, 2004), index of proper names.