Analysis of the Bahima Marriage Ceremony

Oberg, K.

Africa 19(2): 107-120

1949


ISSN/ISBN: 0001-9720
Document Number: 521944
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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