Ba-kawre
Zaghawa · mortal · Zaghawa traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
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
- Ba-kawre is a named figure who gives his name to a tale in the Zaghawa oral repertoire collected by Marie-Jose and Joseph Tubiana.: M.-J. & J. Tubiana, Contes zaghawa du Tchad: trente-sept contes et deux legendes (1961; repr. L'Harmattan, 2004), index of proper names. (primary)