Word: karamajong
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Karamajong tribe, whose members usually go around naked, two weeks ago dressed up to greet President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who had come to town on a campaign swing. Young women in red-checked wrap skirts with layered necklaces of bright beads sang him a welcome song as they jumped straight up in the air. Male dancers wore animal skins and crowned their heads with gracefully curved, white ostrich feathers. All greeted Museveni with a two-word English slogan, in fact, the only words in English they know, "No change! No change...
...Kaguta Museveni out through the sun roof of his white Land Rover to return the victory signal. Dressed in suit and tie and wearing his trademark wide-brimmed green safari hat, he grins at the warm reception. Even in multitribal Uganda, this is not your everyday political rally. The Karamajong are colorful, usually naked cattle rustlers straight out of the pages of National Geographic magazine. Full Story...
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