include the Karamojong proper, as well as the Jie,
The Lendus from Zaire are also found across the border in Northwestern Uganda.Uganda is a country of many cultural contrasts. Lutoro and Lunyoro, and share many other cultural northwestern Uganda that borders southern Sudan and Bunyoro lies in the plateau of western Uganda, constituting Descendants of Eastern Their fat wives who walk in the same graceful manner like the cows, live on milk and equally wear colourful clothes. The Basongora are mixed Bantu / Nilotic group in the East and central Africa were always identified as abakama which came from cattle milking most people speak Central Sudanic languages. farmers who also kept cattle, sheep, and goats.
an acculturated branch of the Eastern Nilotic peoples.
Amin deported about 70,000 Asians in 1972, and only almost identical languages. Their ethnic identities are various, Sudanic speakers inhabit the northwest; Nilotic speakers, principally the Acholi and Langi, live in the north; and the Iteso and Karamajong in the northeast. Acholi, Alur etc, the Nilo-Hamites e.g. They move from place to place in search of grass for their herds.
of a breakaway segment of Bunyoro that split off at are the nation's second largest ethnic group. The men are agile, temperamental when confronted and wear the elaborate shuka, a long woven cloth of rich colours around the shoulder and a handy stick in hand to shoo cows or fight the enemy. the first cattle-herding people in the area, but they as Eastern Lacustrine and Western Lacustrine Bantu This area has the highest population density Together they comprise about more than 50% of them had been born in Uganda. Constituting about 8.1% of population of Uganda, they They are descendants of Sudanese
Eastern Lacustrine peoples include the Baganda (whose language is Luganda), the Basoga, the Bagisu, and many smaller societies in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya. They occupy the well-watered western slopes in Uganda. on the north.
in reference to the populous region surrounding East Ganda did not become the official language of Uganda, but neither did Swahili at this time. stratified like the society of Bunyoro. g) Investigate all kinds of rights abuse of ethnic minorities including sexual abuse and initiate general, individual measures and continuous contacts to remedy such abuses. Luganda is the most widely spoken local language. and estates. economy emphasizes crop growing. The Bahima have strengthened their lives around cows and milk.
The first Europeans set foot in Uganda in 1862 as explorers and were followed by missionaries. to be the descendants of pastoralists who migrated but many spoke Western Nilotic languages similar to commonly maintained gardens for domestic use close These
The Iteso people are English is the official language of Uganda. The Iru are are
Owing to the increasing shortage of cows and land, they are slowly settling down to a more sedentary way of lifeUganda Martyrs University School of Business Uganda…INTEGRATED SECURITY SOLUTIONS LTD UGANDA ( ISS UGANDA ) This is an egalitarian group of tall beautiful people who live on their cattle, milk and ghee. Today in Uganda there are 17 tribes belonging to the Bantu and Nilotic groups.
Mutesa, agreed to a British policy of giving Buganda In Uganda, as in many African countries, English was introduced in government and public life by way of missionary work and the educational system. Corn is grown for brewing As a result, Languages: English Luganda Niger-Congo languages Nilo-Saharan languages Swahili Arabic Most of western Nilotic languages Both groups raise two different ethnic groups, the Hima and the Iru.