The satire in selected Luganda fables.

Abstract

The study critically analyses the use of satire in the luganda fables. The study was guided by two major objectives; to investigate the technique of satire in the luganda fables and their impacts on society. Study conducted in the field and also library, goggle scholar where need be and thus I employed qualitative approach of data collection to facilitate the study. The study in chapter one deals with the background about fables and satire, chapter two explores the satire in different luganda fables and particular their significance to the baganda people and chapter three of this observes how fables share ideas with folk tales and fables that at least to some degree set them apart from reality. Whatever happened in fables was not told on human scale but rather in super dimensional or diminutive terms. The study therefore focuses on satire statements and characters to high light their importance to society and to prove a point or draw the listener of such fables into certain focal point of learning as well as being entertained.