A couple other books you might enjoy, Twilight Tales of the Black Baganda (very misleading title) was written by two Ugandans, but the translator, white woman, claimed ownership, though in her introduction she acknowledged their writing. Skip chapter 1-5 for racist texts!
https://archive.org/details/twilighttalesofb00fishrich/page/n11/mode/2up
The other book by a Ugandan in the 1900s and translated by another in the 1930s is Customs of the Baganda, has little of folk lore https://archive.org/details/customsofbaganda0022sira/page/n7/mode/2up (I can email pdf)
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