Acholi people

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The Acholi people are a Nilotic ethnic group primarily inhabiting northern Uganda and parts of South Sudan, known for their Luo language, rich oral traditions, and complex clan-based social structures.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Acholi people canonical 8
Acholi 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (56)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilotic people
ethnic group
affectedBy internally displaced persons camps in northern Uganda
capitalRegionCity Gulu
conflictResolutionRitual Mato Oput
continent Africa
country South Sudan
Uganda
culturalInstitution Council of Chiefs
culturalPractice dance
music
praise poetry
rich oral traditions
storytelling
economy subsistence agriculture
ethnicGroupOf South Sudan
Uganda
governance chiefdoms
historicalExperience Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
language Acholi language
languageFamily Luo language
surface form: Luo languages

Nilotic languages
Western Nilotic languages
livelihood cattle keeping
small livestock rearing
majorTown Agago
Kitgum
Pader
notableDistrict Butambala District
surface form: Agago District

Amuru District
Gulu District
Kitgum
surface form: Kitgum District

Lamwo District
Nwoya District
Pader District
primaryRegion Eastern South Sudan
Northern Region, Uganda
surface form: Northern Uganda
relatedEthnicGroup Alur people
Lango people
Jopadhola people
surface form: Padhola people

Shilluk
surface form: Shilluk people
religion Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglicanism

Christianity
Roman Catholicism
traditional Acholi religion
socialStructure clan-based system
socialUnit lineage
patrilineal clan
stapleCrop cassava
maize
millet
sorghum
subgroupOf Luo people
surface form: Luo peoples
traditionalLeaderTitle Rwot
traditionalRegionName Acholi sub-region
Acholiland

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Luo people relatedEthnicGroup Acholi people
Luo people of Uganda notableSubgroup Acholi people
English in Uganda coexistsWith Acholi people
this entity surface form: Acholi
Nilotic peoples includesEthnicGroup Acholi people
Alur people relatedEthnicGroup Acholi people
Lango people neighboringEthnicGroup Acholi people
Nwoya District hasCommonLanguage Acholi people
this entity surface form: Acholi
Northern Region, Uganda hasEthnicGroup Acholi people
this entity surface form: Acholi
Kitgum mainEthnicGroup Acholi people
this entity surface form: Acholi