The Individuals, Settlements and Tribes in Uganda

Uganda was shaped by the British between the a long time 1890 and 1926. The title Uganda was inferred from the antiquated Buganda Kingdom. There are over 56 tribes in Uganda. Some of them were moved from other nation and a few of them are started from them.

The nation lies completely between the arms of the Eastern and Western Awesome Crack Valleys of East Africa. It is bordered by the Equitable Republic of Congo (DRC) to the west, South Sudan to the North, Kenya to the East and Tanzania and Rwanda to the South. The most punctual tenants of Uganda were the Stone Age Individuals, who were steadily retained or supplanted within the to begin with thousand years A.D. by the approaching agriculturists and pastoralists. Between A.D. 500 and 1,500, other individuals started emigrate to Uganda from distinctive parts of Africa. At the time of the coming of the British, there were over fifty ethnic and social bunches in Uganda. These ethnic communities seem helpfully be separated into four wide phonetic categories specifically; the Bantu, the Luo, the Atekerin and the Sudanic.

The Bantu were the most punctual gather to come to Uganda and constitute over 50 percent of Uganda’s add up to populace. They Contain; Baganda, Banyankole, Banyoro, Bakonjo, Basoga, Bakiga, Bafumbira, Batooro, Bamba, Batwa, Banyule, Basamia- Bagwe and Baggwere. They by and large involve the east, central, west, and southern Uganda. The moment category is the Atekerin individualstoo alluded to as the Para-Nilotics or the Nilo- Hamites. The gather is found basically within the north, the east and north-eastern Uganda. The bunch constitutes the Langi, the Karamajong, the Iteso, the Kakwa, and the Kumam. They follow their roots to Ethiopia and are said to have been one individuals. The Langi are interesting in that they misplaced their Ateker dialect and culture and talked Luo. The third gather is the Luos, an broad family that spread all over East Africa. These tribes in uganda incorporate the Alur, the Acholi, and the Japadhola. The Alur are settled in West Nile, Acholi in Northern Uganda and Japadhola in Eastern Uganda

The Sudanic are speakers of West Nile, comprising of the Madi, the Lugbara, the Okebu, the Bari, and the Metu. They follow their beginning to Sudan but their societies and dialect demonstrate that they have gotten to be totally segregated from their places of ro

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