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Uganda has many tribes that speak different languages. The following is a list of all Ugandan tribes in alphabetical order. This list refers to Article 10(a) and the Third Schedule of Uganda´s Constitution (Uganda´s indigenous communities as at 1 February 1926) which enumerates 65 indigenous communities.
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In Uganda, the kanzu [27] is the national dress of men in the country. Women from central and eastern Uganda wear a dress with a sash tied around the waist and large exaggerated shoulders called a gomesi. [28] Women from the west and north-west drape a long cloth around their waists and shoulders called suuka. Women from the south-west wear a ...
During the Uganda Protectorate period, the British colonialists used South Asian immigrants as intermediaries. Following independence they constituted the largest non-indigenous ethnic group in Uganda, at around 80,000 people, and they dominated trade, industry, and the professions.
The Baganda [3] (endonym: Baganda; singular Muganda) also called Waganda, are a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda.Traditionally composed of 52 clans (although since a 1993 survey, only 46 are officially recognised), the Baganda are the largest people of the Bantu ethnic group in Uganda, comprising 16.5 percent of the population at the time of the 2014 ...
Related ethnic groups Avukaya , Logo , Aringa , Keliko , Omi , Olu'bo , Madi and other Central Sudanic peoples The Lugbara are a Central Sudanic ethnic group who live primarily in the West Nile region of Uganda , in the adjoining area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with a few living in South Sudan .
These ethnic groups inhabit an area across Uganda and Kenya. Itung'a (a vernacular term meaning "people of one language") [2] and Teso have been used among ethnographers, while the term Teso-Turkana is sometimes used for the languages, which are of Eastern Nilotic stock. Ateker means 'clan' or 'tribe' in the Teso language.
The Acholi and Langi ethnic groups in northern Uganda were particular objects of Amin's political persecution because they had supported Obote and made up a large part of the army. [9] In 1978, the International Commission of Jurists — a statistic cited at the end of the 2006 movie The Last King of Scotland , which chronicled part of Amin's ...