DID YOU KNOW THAT........

Dr. Abe's Music produced for the children of Northern Uganda is being sold by:

Stern's Music, 74-75 WARREN STREET, LONDON entitled "Acholi Renaissance" released in 2006. Some part of the proceeds from the sale of this Albums will go to support and educate the children of Northern Uganda. Check out the following links:

http://www.sternsmusic.com/ and http://purple-lion.co.uk/dr_abe.html

Click the following link for the Album

DR. ABE (1 release)

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This artifact is : Acholi Sandal, Africa, c.1900

Information: Traditional footwear from the Acholi region of Northern Uganda is formed using an oval shaped piece of wet rawhide which is incised and pigmented red and black.
Owner: The Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto (BSM P92.96) Photo Credit:(c) Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto. Photo: Matthew Plexman

Source: http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/media/chronicles_of_riches.html

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Did you know about the following books published in Acholi language?

1. Acam toona ¦ J.P. Ocitti. Nairobi etc.> East African Literature Bureau, 1970. 84 p. Adangme 2

2. Acoli ki ker megi ¦ ma coyo buk man aye Reuben S. Anywar. Nairobi etc.> The Eagle Press, 1954. 223 p. (SOAS 1)

3. The bank and how it will help Africans Benge ki kit ma bikonyo kwede Africans. Kampala> Prepared by the Department of Commerce, Uganda and published by The Eagle Press, 1955. 16 p. English and Lwoo (Acoli) Benge ki kit ma bikonyo kwede Africans. See> The bank and how it will help Africans.

4. Bora afya Yot kom maber. London> The Sheldon Press, 1934. 31 p. Swahili and Acholi. (SOAS 5107) (NUSwahili)

5. Lacan ma kwo pe kinyero ¦ ngat mucoyo J.P. Ocitti. Kampala> East African Literature Bureau, The Eagle Press, 1960. 91 p. English title> Every dog has his day. (SOAS 20)

6. Lak tar ¦ Okot p&Bitek. Nairobi etc.> East African Literature Bureau, 2nd ed. 1969. 131 p.

7. Pit ki gwoko lotino ¦ Mrs. H.F. Davies aye oyubo, Erica Lakor aye okobo. Kampala> The Eagle Press, 1953. 20 p. Entlish title> Infant welfare. (SOAS 31)

8. Pwonye me lebwa ¦ lupwony ki lukwan me Canon Lawrence College, Lira, aye muyubo. Kampala> The Eagle Press, East African Literature Bureau, 1957. 65 p. English title> Learning our language. (SOAS 32)

9. Tekwaro ki ker lobo Acholi ¦ Lacito Okech. Kampala> The Eagle Press, 1953. 90 p. English title> History and chieftainship records of the land of the Acholi people of Uganda. (SOAS 38)

10. Welo okelo yengo ¦ J.B. Otuko. Kampala etc.> East African Literature Bureau, 1976. 233 p

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Other publication about Acholi in English:

Apoko, Anna (1967). "At Home in the Village: Growing Up in Acholi." In East African Childhood: Three Versions, edited by L. K. Fox, 43-75. Nairobi: Oxford University Press.

Atkinson, Ronald R. (1989). "The Evolution of Ethnicity among the Acholi of Uganda: The Pre-colonial Phase." Ethnohistory 36(1): 19-43.

Atkinson, Ronald R. (1994). The Roots of Ethnicity: The Origins of the Acholi of Uganda before 1800.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Behrend, Heike (1991). "Is Alice Lakwena a Witch? The Holy Spirit Movement and Its Fight against Evil in the North." In Changing Uganda: The Dilemmas of Structural Adjustment and Revolutionary Change, edited by Holger B. Hansen and Michael Twaddle, 162-177. London: James Currey.

Crazzolara, J. P. (1938). A Study of the Acooli Language: Grammar and Vocabulary. London: Oxford University Press.

Crazzolara, J. P. (1950-1954). The Lwoo. 3 vols. Verona: Editrice Nigrizia.

Dwyer, John O. (1972). The Acholi of Uganda: Adjustment to Imperialism. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International.

Girling, F. K. (1960). The Acholi of Uganda. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Hansen, Holger B., and Michael Twaddle, eds. (1988). Uganda Now: Between Decay and Development.London: James Currey.

Hansen, Holger B., and Michael Twaddle, eds. (1991). Changing Uganda: The Dilemmas of Structural Adjustment and Revolutionary Change. London: James Currey.

Kasozi, A. B. K. (1994). The Social Origins of Violence in Uganda, 1964-1985. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Langlands, B. W. (1971). The Population Geography of Acholi District. Occasional Paper no. 30. Makerere University (Kampala), Department of Geography.

Malandra, Alfred (1939). "The Ancestral Shrine of the Acholi." Uganda Journal 7(1): 27-43.

Ocheng, D. O. (1955). "Land Tenure in Acholi." Uganda Journal 19(1): 57-61.

Odongo, J. M. Onyango-ku-, and J. B. Webster, eds. (1976). The Central Lwo during the Aconya.Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau.

Okeny, Kenneth (1982). "State Formation in Acholi: The Emergence of Obbo, Pajok, and Panyikwara States c. 1679-1914." M.A. thesis, University of Nairobi.

Okot p'Bitek (1963). "The Concept of Jok among the Acholi and Lango." Uganda journal 27(1): 15-30.

Okot p'Bitek (1971). Religion of the Central Luo. Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau.

Uma, F. K. (1971). "Acholi-Arab Nubian Relations in the Nineteenth Century." B.A. Graduating Essay, Department of History, Makerere University (Kampala).

Wright, A. C. A. (1936). "Some Notes on Acholi Religious Ceremonies." Uganda Journal 3(3): 175-202.

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