This interesting dance is performed by the Alur of North-western Uganda and participants include women and men. Agwara dance is always performed during social occasions and dancers follow the sound of the drums…
The Nilo-Hamites are a linguistic and cultural group that lives in several parts of East Africa, including Uganda. They are thought to be descendants of the ancient Hamitic people who moved south from…
Nilotic-language speakers entered the area from the north probably beginning about A.D. 100. They were the first cattle-herding people in the area, but they relied on crop cultivation to supplement livestock herding for…
Bantu-speakers entered southern Uganda probably by the end of the first millennium A.D. and developed centralized kingdoms by the fifteenth or the sixteenth century. At independence, Bantu-language speakers made up approximately two thirds…
Ugandans can be classified into several broad linguistic groups: the Bantu-speaking majority, who live in the central, southern and western parts of the country; and non-Bantu speakers who occupy the eastern, northern and…