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Analysis of the Bahima Marriage Ceremony

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

Kalervo Oberg
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The Banyankole, who live in western Uganda, East Africa, are made up of two ethnic groups, the Baku and the Bahima. The Bairu, who number about a quarter of a million, are Bantu agriculturists. The Bahima, on the other hand, are Hamiticized negro cattle people of north African origin. Although numbering only about ten thousand, the Bahima were able, before British control, to dominate the Bairu and rule them as serfs.

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Research Article
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Africa , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 1949 , pp. 107 - 120
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Copyright © International African Institute 1949

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References

page 107 note 1 For additional information on the Banyankole see Roscoe, J., The Banyankole, London, 1923Google Scholar; Oberg, K., ‘Kinship Organization of the Banyan-kole’, Africa, Apr. 1938Google Scholar; ‘The Kingdom of Ankole’, African Political Systems, edited by Fortes, M. and Evans-Pritchard, E. E., Oxford University Press, 1940Google Scholar.