Saturday 15 June 2013

Bringing close to you the karimojong.

The Karimojong live and die for cattle — the determinant of seemingly everything in a pastoral life.  This is what drives many to live on the edge, as nomadic warriors are constantly on the move to find enough water, to increase their herds, to defend their own and to get cattle for dowries.  Women often stay at one central settlement called a manyata or ere, where they look over small farms and raise the young children.

Even though the region they inhabit seems lawless, the Karimojong traditionally have a relatively democratic society based on a patriarchal age-set system led by the warriors, also known as the Gazelles or ngigetei, and, above all, the elders, also known as the Mountains or ngimoru.  Life is communal on the whole with men taking many wives, if they can afford their dowries, and extended families often living together or near each other and participating in everyday tasks together.

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