Abstract

The African at Home

The article presents information on the book "The Bagesu and Other Tribes of the Uganda Protectorate. Part Three of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa." With this work Cannon Roscoe completes the series of three volumes constituting the report of the Mackie Expedition to Central Africa, the other two being "The Banyankole" and "The Bakitara." The expedition itself took place during the years 1919 and 1920, and supplemented the author's previous large experience in Africa, where he has been missionary and student of native life in this region for many years. The first people described in the book, the Bagesu, live on the slope of Mount Elgon, a snow-covered peak not far from the Equator lying immediately to the northeast of Lake Victoria Nyanza. These people, "one of the most primitive of the Negro tribes of Africa," live high on the mountain side, where they find refuge and shelter in caves.