Uganda culture

Karimajong grass thatched houses and kraals of cattel in the middle

Karamoja with the Karamajong also known as Karamajong/Karimajong speaking people  is more than 1,000 metres above sea level, and four main mountains overlook the region’s savannah, highlands and river valleys:  Mount Morungole in the north, Mount Moroto in the east, Mount Kadam in the south and Mount Napak in the west. They have pastoral life as well as the scarcity of rain, keeps people on the move and well dispersed. It is no wonder that this amazing one of the sixty eight tribes in Uganda that live in the dry area dedicate their pastoral economy with crop cultivation, which is commonly practiced by women. Millet is their staple, but many people also grow corn and peanuts. Grazing is done by men and grazing areas are common ground outside the stockade, although milk cows sometimes stay near the homestead. During the driest months, usually February and March, cattle are moved to seasonal camps or to areas of water and grass a distance from the homestead. In these areas, men live almost entirely on milk and blood drawn from live cattle, and, occasionally, meat. In the homestead, women, children, and old people forage for food, including flying ants, if stores of grain are depleted. In very lean times, milk is reserved for children and calves before adults. Tobacco is grown within the stockade that surrounds most homesteads. The homestead is usually a circular configuration, and within this enclosure, each married woman has a house built of mud and brushwood walls with a thatched roof and it is more likely that if you visit this area, you find women building houses even on top of roofs thatching their roofs. The center of this is a cattle kraal, usually with only one opening to the outside

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A akaramajong woman practising a caltural dancing

Oh the pearl of Africa that welcomes everybody to enjoy a tour exploring the life of  Karamojong that has a unique marriage which is polygamous with the number of wives is being limited solely by financial circumstances.  After marriage, Wives live in their husband's homestead. Each wife has a separate, small house that serves as a kitchen, and some women also cultivate plots of ground several hours' walk away from their homes. Men were traditionally scornful of widowers and old men who cared for their own gardens, but after plows were introduced in the 1950s and farming became more financially rewarding, many young men claimed plots of ground for their own use and hired women to work in them.   No boy is allowed to marry until he is admitted by the elders to the status of manhood. Up to this time a boy must pluck out all his pubic hair. When the time comes (usually as one of the groups) his father gives him a bull, which the boy kills sharing it with his male relatives. Smearing himself with dang from the entrails and gives his mother the head, neck, hump, stomach, and ribs. His hair is cut by an adult male friend, leaving a tuft at the back to which a shot string is attached. Traditionally, when the hair grows back, he moulds it into two buns, one on top of the head and one at the back with coloured clay.
In attaining manhood, he may seek a wife. It is usual that he will already have at least one lover and if his father approves his lover may be taken as his wife. When a woman is about to give birth she is assisted by her   female relatives. The umbilical cord is tied with fiber and cut near to the body. If the baby is a boy the cord is cut with the arrow used for bleeding cattle but if it is a girl, a knife is used. The cord is buried in the cattle enclosure.
When someone dies, the body is wrapped up in a hide and buried in a goat enclosure. If the person is pauper without friends the body is simply thrown outside the kraal and left to the wild animals.
When a husband dies the widow passes into the possession of his principal brother. He will then kill, and, they will smear themselves with dung from its entrails. From this time onwards she belongs to him. If there is no brother then she will pass to the son of a co-wife.
The karamajong language, Nga karamojong, is complicated and subtle. 

 Oh what an amazing tribe, I wish i was a Karamojong but then what an amazing tribe is mine also??

Global consern on forest reserve

More than athird of the earths million square miles of land is covered by forests or is capable of supporting forests. However, these forests lands are un equally distributed among the continents and even within different areas of the same continent. Although the most prominent features of the forests are its trees and shrubs, aforest is must more than such woody vegetation. Forest is acomplex closely knit commonly or ecological system which is map aliving environment and a non living environment of which aliving environment includes all plants and animals in addition to shrubs and trees.
In atypical forest, these include ; habicous plants,mosses, lichens, bacteria, birds, insects,spinners, and knits. In most forests, there are several layers or stratas of folliage formed by plants of different heights and different classification like tropical forest and lowland forest. Often they are described as ever green if the tree bears green leaves throughout the year. In adecidous forest, the leaves fall at the onset of the cold or dry season and the trees are without foliage for aperiod of several weeks or months. Some forests incliude oak forests (encirials) in the south west, are composed of trees that rose off their old leaves and develop new leaves in the period of a new week in spring. Such forests may be determined as sem decidous or sem evergreen. They may also be described as open or closed. In an open, the tree crowns generally do not touch or overlap, and the canopy, therefore forest have more or less continous canopies formed by interlocking or overlapping the tree crowns.

However, they are affected by both human activities such as lumbering that is mostly common in tropical forests with nice logs, overgrazing due to population increase, settlements that has covered most of the forests through encroachment, and  natural activities such as wild fires and vulcanicity.
According to conservation plan (2003), hunting has an indirect ipact on chimpanzees , gorillas and other primates through the use of snares or jaw trapped by hunters. Most of these snares sre made by wires so as these chimpanzees, gorillas and other primates walk through the forest, their hands or feet may become trapped in the snares. In two of the forests where chimpanzees are studied (kibale and budongo forests), researchers have observed up to 25% of chimpanzees with snares related injuries. They have also found out that chimpanzees with injuries to upper lips experienced snares limitation in both dexterity and control while processing foods foristance; figs, the majopr food resources or their diet. Chimpanzees with their injuries appears to show remarkable compensation in feeding abilities, but there is a concern for the ability of individuals to survive under extreme compensation.
According to Keller et al (2001) reports show that growth in human population arround natural forest, the demand for more agricultural and the increase in land use activities have exerted pressure on tropical forests whose tree cover, species composition and structure have changed over the past decades.
However as forests is a global consern, Tree planting should be part of the governnment's poverrty allleviation efforts as there  is alot from tree farming in any case people have the by law regarding tree plantation. This is due to the fact that, trees plays a big role forinstance; In water catchment, binding soil cover, infrustuctural developement, power generation from bunning charcoal, act as a home animals and birds such as primates, antelopes, reptles and turracos, weaver birds, respectively. 

Uganda's scenery

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Local people harvesting tea

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