[1] Traditionally, folktales instilled discipline and good behaviour that shaped societal beliefs and norms within Ugandan society.
[2] Folktales from Northern Uganda include the story of Mighty Angwech,[3] the Hare's Marriage, and The Shoe-Maker and the Monkey.
[citation needed] The Teso community of Eastern Uganda, offers the great folktale of Oduk the conqueror.
[6] In the Gisu tribe, male circumcision, known as Imbalu, is a famous annual ceremony that retells the Bugisu story of boys transiting into men.
[10][11] Folktales in Buganda are also about hares, leopards, rabbits and other animals that live in the wild and one of the famous folk stories is about wango and wakayima.