Trees and anthills: songs of Karimojong women's groups
Abstract
- Abstract
- Karamoja District of north-eastern Uganda is a semi-arid plateau between 3,000 and 4,000 feet high. Most of its 9,230 square miles is covered with sparse savannah grassland or stunted acacia shrubs. Beside the dry, sandy river beds grow larger trees of the acacia family. Except for the areas of no-man's land between rival groups, the entire region suffers from over-grazing by cattle. In the settled areas even the largest trees have been hacked and hewn for firewood. For half the year the sun scorches the unprotected earth into the harness of concrete. When the rains come water flows quickly away before the soil can absorb it, and the rivers fill up in flash floods that sweep away even the tallest trees.
Description
- Description
- pages: 114-121
Subjects
People & roles
- Author
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Gourlay, Ken A.
Value Annotations
Origins & context
- Is Part Of
- Makerere University
Origins & context
- Title
- Trees and anthills: songs of Karimojong women's groups
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Created Date
- August 5, 1970
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-019c
- Identifier
-
1686
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Origins & context
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 78002
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