Amba people
The Amba people, also known as Bwamba or the Bamba, are an indigenous Bantu ethnic group primarily residing in Uganda’s Bundibugyo District, south of Lake Albert, near the Rwenzori Mountains, and across the border in the Ituri Province of the...
Rwenzururu
Rwenzururu is one of the 17 officially recognised Kingdoms in Uganda, located in the western part of the country along the Rwenzori Mountains on the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It includes the districts of Bundibugyo, Kasese...
Stephen Albert (actor)
Stephen "Baamba" Albert (1950 – 13 November 2019) was an Indigenous Australian actor and singer. He starred in the musicals Bran Nue Dae and Corrugation Road. Albert was born in the Western Australian town of Broome.
List of tribes in Uganda
Uganda has many tribes that speak different languages. The following is a list of all constitutionally-recognized Ugandan tribes in alphabetical order, as well as some tribes that are currently unrecognized. This list refers to Article 10(a) and the...
Sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of inherited hemoglobin-related blood disorders. Sickle cell disease is caused by an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells. This leads to...
Minembwe
Minembwe is a village located in the highlands of Lulenge, within the Fizi Territory of the South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is situated at an altitude of about 2,500 meters above sea level, in a hilly and mountainous...
Bantu peoples
The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct Indigenous African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are native to countries spread over a vast area from West Africa, to Central Africa, Southeast...
North Kivu
North Kivu (Swahili: Jimbo la Kivu Kaskazini) is a province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital city is Goma. Spanning approximately 59,483 square kilometers with a population estimate of 8,985,711 as of...