Konjo people
| Bakonjo | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| 362,000 (1992, census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Rwenzori Mountains of southwest Uganda | |
| Languages | |
| Konjo language |
The Konjo (pl. Bakonjo, sing. Mukonjo), or Konzo, are a people located in the Rwenzori Mountains of southwest Uganda. Numbering 361,709 in the 1992 census, they live on the plains, hills and mountain sloping up to an altitude of 2,200 meters. Traditionally agriculturalists and animal husbanders, they farm yams, beans, sweet potatoes, peanuts, soy beans, potatoes, rice, wheat, cassava, coffee, bananas, and cotton, while keeping goats, sheep, and poultry. They speak the Konjo language and practice traditional religions and Christianity. Konjo speakers also live on the western slopes of the Rwenzori range in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]
The Konjo were part of the armed Rwenzururu movement against the Toro Kingdom and central government that reached heights in the mid-1960s and early 1980s.[2] In 2008, the government recognized the Rwenzururu Kingdom, formed by the Konjo and Amba peoples, as Uganda's first kingdom shared by two tribes.[3]
Notable Bakonjo include Amon Bazira, a political figure instrumental in the negotiations that ended the 1980s conflict, and Charles Mumbere, named the Omusinga (king), of the Rwenzururu Kingdom.
References
- ↑ "Konjo: A language of Uganda", Ethnologue (accessed 7 June 2009)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., 82-83
- ↑ "Uganda: Welcome Rwenzururu", editorial by the New Vision, 31 March 2008
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