Bakonjo
The Konjo (pl. Bakonjo , sing. Mukonjo ) or Konzo are a people who live in the Ruwenzori Mountains of southwest Uganda .
According to a census from 1992, 361,709 Bakonjo lived in the plateaus, hills and mountain slopes at an altitude of up to 2200 meters. Traditionally, these are arable farmers and ranchers and grow yams , sweet potatoes , beans, peanuts , soybeans , potatoes , rice , wheat , cassava , coffee , bananas, and cotton while herding domestic goats , sheep, and poultry . The Bakonjo practice traditional East African religions and Christianity . In recent times, Sunni Islam has also spread increasingly among the Konjo. The Bakonjo also live on the western slopes of the Rwenzorirange in the Congo .
The Bakonjo language is called differently and is known as Rukonjo, Olukonjo, Olukonzo or Lhukonzo . Linguistically, she has up to 77% similarities with Nande . There are many clans including Sanza (Ekisanza).
The Bakonjo were part of the Rwenzururu movement against the Kingdom of Toro and later against the central government, which peaked in the mid-1960s and early 1980s. In 2008 the Ugandan government recognized the Kingdom of Rwenzururu, backed by the Bakonjo and Amba . It is the first kingdom of Uganda to be divided by two peoples.
Well-known Bakonjo are Amon Bazira , who played an important role in the negotiations that ended the 1980s conflict, and Charles Mumbere , known as the Omusinga , the king of the Rwenzururu kingdom.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Konjo: A language of Uganda , Ethnologue (last accessed June 7, 2009).
- ^ Gérard Prunier : Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe . Oxford University Press , Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-537420-9 . , Pp. 82-83.
- ↑ Uganda: Welcome Rwenzururu , editorial by the New Vision , March 31, 2008