Jan 30, 2021
In the 1970s my mum was a teacher in a girls’ school in Uganda, the pupils were mostly Karamojong - a nomadic pastoral people who range across northern Uganda. They were, and still are, generally resistant to the Ugandan government’s efforts to settle them (my mum’s teaching was part of this “civilising” effort) and the children generally ran off as soon as it was possible or convenient. This tape of recordings that includes traditional songs from Jie (a Karamojong sub-group) and Baganda (a southern Uganda agricultural people) singers and Christian hymns in Karamojong. My mum did not speak the Jie dialect, but these songs, being sung by under 10s, are apparently somewhat obscene.