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Chapter III
The Old Religion and Morals
It is a common thing with most travellers in African countries to tell us that most black races have no idea of a God or a Supreme Being. This is quite a mistake; indeed, most races will be found to have a belief in a Supreme God. Certainly the Baganda have, and the word they use—‘Katonda’—for the Creator of the world is the same word which is now used for God; for they believe that Katonda sent down from heaven the inhabitants of the world.
Their story runs thus: In the beginning Katonda told his son, Kintu, and his wife, Namba, to come down into the world and to bear children, who should be the inhabitants
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