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Parchment-style illustration of Nyakana watching Kaweesi sing from canoe on Lake Victoria; Ugandan folktale of love.

The Fisherman and the Princess

Long ago, when the waters of Lake Victoria stretched endlessly beneath the African sun, there stood a magnificent palace on its very shores. Within those walls lived a powerful chief whose wealth was measured not only in cattle and land, but in the treasure he valued most his only daughter, Nyakana. Nyakana was a maiden of exceptional beauty and grace,

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