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  • Image 81 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment Population Size In 1990 the Ugandan government estimated the nation s popu lation to be 169 million people international estimates ranged as high as 175 million see…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 82 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study 10 05 05 10 POPULATION IN MILLIONS Figure 4 Population by Age and Sex 1989 even these estimates overlooked some regions that were depopu lated by warfare In…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 83 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment Uganda was the focus of migration from surrounding African countries until 1970 with most immigrants coming from Rwanda Burundi and Sudan In the 1970s immigrants were estimated…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 84 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study Internatonal boundary ITESO Ethnic group National capital Populated place 25 50 Kilometers 25 50 Miles A ACHOLI KARAMOJONG Lira LANGI ITESO BASOGA BAGISU Mbale BAGANDA Kampala BANYAN KOLE…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 85 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment Central Sudanic languages which also arrived in Uganda from the north over a period of centuries are spoken by the Lugbara Madi and a few small groups…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 86 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study The traditional Ganda economy relied on crop cultivation In contrast with many other East African economic systems cattle played only a minor role Many Baganda hired laborers from…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 87 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment their subjects Ganda armies also seized territory held by Bunyoro the neighboring kingdom to the west Ganda cultural norms also prevented the establishment of a royal clan…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 88 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study arrived in the region as slaves but by the early twentieth century many nonBaganda migrant workers stayed in Buganda to farm Marriage with nonBaganda was fairly common and…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 89 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment population density in the nation rising to 250 per square kilome ter As a result almost all land in Bugisu is cultivated and land pressure causes population…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 90 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study occupation generally reserved for people of Hima descent The traditional staple is millet and sweet potatoes cassava and legumes of various kinds are also grown Bananas are used…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 91 of Uganda : a country study Murchison Kabalega Falls on the Victoria Nile River near Lake Albert Lake Victoria at Entebbe Courtesy Carl Fleischhauer 57
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 92 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study his authority within the royal clan effectively removing the king from the demands of his family The kalyota was forbidden to marry or bear children protecting the king…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 93 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment Banyankole Ankole Nkole is a large kingdom in southwestern Uganda where the pastoralist Hima established dominion over the agricul tural Iru some time before the nineteenth century…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 94 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study The Iru had a number of ways to redress grievances against Hima overlords despite their legal inferiority Iru men could petition the king to end unfair treatment by…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 95 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment who sometimes impeded administration of the region Most Karamojong resisted government pressures to abandon their herd ing lifestyles but officials estimated that as many as 20 percent…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 96 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study many young men claimed plots of ground for their own use and hired women to work in them Dodoth homesteads are larger than those of the Karamojong proper…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 97 of Uganda : a country study Residents relax in the evening at a park in downtown Kampala Conducting business in a fabric shop in Kampala Courtesy Carl Fleischhauer 63
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 98 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study but they do not observe the ritual taboos of animals or foods that are characteristic of many other African clan groupings Two important sources of social solidarity link…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 99 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment Uganda The move increased their vulnerability to attack by peo ple and disease and an influx of refugees from Sudan further dis rupted life Warfare and conflict…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 100 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study All Iteso men within a settlement both related and unrelated are organized according to age Each ageset spans fifteen to twenty years providing a generational framework for sharing…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 101 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment to neighboring societies of the West Nile region where most peo ple speak Central Sudanic languages Langi and Acholi The Langi and Acholi occupy northcentral Uganda The…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 102 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study chiefdoms which were never unified in a single polity during precolonial times Related lineages from different chiefdoms per formed some religious ceremonies together and intermarriage among chiefdoms was…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 103 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment most matters but the clan segment or lineage shares more im mediate responsibility for avoiding conflict Foreigners Nubians Roughly 10000 Ugandans of Sudanese descent are classified as…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 104 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study citizenship to refugee camps and by expelling some to Tanzania In the late 1980s more than 120000 Rwandans were recognized as refugees in Uganda by the UNHCR Asians…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
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    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 106 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study membership has influenced opportunities for education employ ment and social advancement As a result the distinction between material and spiritual benefits of religion has not been considered very…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 107 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment Islam In 1990 Islam was practiced by an estimated 26 million Ugan dans representing roughly 15 percent of the population Islam had arrived in Uganda from the…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 108 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study Amin s overthrow in 1979 Muslims became the victims of the back lash that was directed primarily against the Kakwa and Nubian ethnic groups who had supported Amin…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 109 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment A lineage elder is said to own an ancestral shrine and this owner ship serves to reinforce his power to communicate with the ances tors The elder…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 110 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study Millenarian Religions A number of millenarian religions promising a golden age or millennium existed in Uganda in the 1980s They have often arisen in response to rapid culture…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 111 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment Yakan religion declined in influence but did not disappear Promises of a millennium continued to arise in similar form in the 1980s Holy Spirit Movement In the…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 112 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study economy relying largely on crop cultivation In most northern so cieties status distinctions were based on age gender and in some cases spiritual prowess Men with military expertise…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 113 of Uganda : a country study Marketing farm produce in Kampala Courtesy Carl Fleischhauer 79
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 114 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study years They recruited members among their own ethnic or reli gious groups however and therefore most peasant farmers re mained poor During the years surrounding independence land ownership…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 115 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment came to symbolize the importance of this thriving sector of the econ omy Local economists estimated that during the early 1980s magen do activities generated as much…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 116 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study responsibilities for childcare and subsistence cultivation and in the twentieth century women had made substantial contributions to cashcrop agriculture Many men claimed that their society revered women and…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 117 of Uganda : a country study The Society and Its Environment government reports suggested that the number of women employed in commerce increased in the late 1970s and early 1980s The Museveni government of the late 1980s pledged…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 118 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study Most subjects were taught according to the British syllabus un til 1974 and British examinations measured a student s progress through primary and secondary school In 1975 the…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 119 of Uganda : a country study CHILDREN CROSSING Bf CAREFULLY Children waiting for a school bus near Kampala Courtesy Carl Fleischhauer examinations might study at Makerere University in Kampala or they might study abroad Other options for Alevel…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01
  • Image 120 of Uganda : a country study Uganda A Country Study officials including the headmaster or headmistress and district edu cation officials were responsible for collecting fees ordering sup plies and administering the school according to national policy The…
    • Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Byrnes, Rita M.
    • Date: 1992-01-01