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1. Acholi, n. and adj. View full entry 1874
...A member of a farming and pastoral people of northern Uganda and southern Sudan; the Nilotic language of this people....
2. Dinka, n. and adj. View full entry 1861
...A member of a Sudanese people or their language; collect., this people....
3. ilmoran, n. View full entry 1885
...= moran...
4. Kipsigis, n. View full entry 1931
...The name of a people inhabiting western Kenya, and their Nilotic language; a member of this people. Also attrib. or as ...
5. korrigum, n. View full entry 1826
...A West African antelope, Damaliscus korrigum; also called the topi....
6. Lango, n. and adj. View full entry 1902
...A member of a village-dwelling people inhabiting the Nile region of Uganda....
7. manyatta, n. View full entry 1905
...Among certain East African peoples, particularly the Masai: a group of huts forming a unit within a common fence....
8. Masai, n. and adj. View full entry 1857
...A member of a nomadic pastoral people inhabiting neighbouring areas of Kenya and Tanzania....
9. moran, n. View full entry 1914
...Among the Masai people of East Africa: a member of a warrior group consisting of the younger unmarried males in a community....
10. nanga, n.1 View full entry 1864
...In central and eastern Africa: a small, simple zither or harp, consisting of (usually) seven or eight strings strung across a trough-shaped wooden box....
11. Nuer, adj. and n. View full entry 1850
...Of, relating to, or designating an African people of south-eastern Sudan and Ethiopia (see sense B. 1 or their Nilotic language (see sense B. 2)....
12. nyatiti, n. View full entry 1964
...A musical instrument with eight strings which resembles a lyre, traditionally played by the Luo people of Kenya. Also: the style of music typically played on this instrument....
13. Pokot, n. and adj. View full entry 1937
...A member of an East African Nilotic people inhabiting parts of western Kenya and eastern central Uganda; = Suka....
14. tiang, n. View full entry 1894
...A small dark brown antelope belonging to a race of the korrigum, Damaliscus lunatus, found in the Sudan and neighbouring parts of Ethiopia....
15. toich, n. View full entry 1948
...In Southern Sudan, a stretch of flat land near a river that is subject to annual flooding....
16. Watusi, n. View full entry 1899
...The name of a minority racial group in Rwanda and Burundi, probably of Ethiopic or Nilotic origin, which formerly dominated the majority Hutu people; a member of this group. Also attrib....