The Ik people of Kidepo Valley National park,Uganda

Описание: The Ik people of Kidepo Valley National park (sometimes called Teuso, though this term is explicitly derogatory) are an ethnic group numbering between 10,000 to 11,000 people living in the mountains of northeastern Uganda near the border with Kenya, next to the more populous Karamojong and Turkana people.

The Ik were displaced from their land to create the Kidepo Valley National Park and consequently suffered extreme famine. Also, their weakness relative to other tribes meant they were regularly raided. The Ik are subsistence farmers who grind their own grain.

The Ik people live in several small villages arranged in clusters, which comprise the total “community”. Each small village is surrounded by an outer wall – made from thorny bushes and shrub cuttings entangled to form a protective fence.

The Ik People were the first people to migrate to Northeastern Uganda and they still remind everyone that Ik means “head of migration” or the first ones to migrate here.

Learn about the cultural life of the Ik people such paying he bride price with 5 to 10 beehives, chickens, goats, money instead of cattle, how children at a young age live with one another or their grandmother. How polygamy is practiced here and about everyday life in an Ik Village on Morungole Mountain.

Cattle for the most part is no longerkept for fear of raids from other tribes surrounding them, most farm, have goats and keep beehives and some of the honey is now processed.

Credit:CNN,Inside Africa