Tag: Languages
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Our limited medical vocabulary
Just wondering why our Uganda languages mostly have one word for medical personnel – doctors, nurses, lab technicians and health workers as a whole – village health teams, herbalists and all others. We do not have a different word for Clinicians, for example; and it is often the case that we perceive all clinicians to…
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Uganda’s Indigenous Communities as at 1st February 1926
Reading the third schedule of our Constitution of the Republic of Uganda (article 10(a)) has me wondering how so little I know about our indigenous communities, my fellow Ugandans. And yet I identify as a cultural anthropologist. Some of our indigenous communities, like the Aliba, the Batuku, the Gimara, the Mening, the Ngikutio, the Reli…
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