Nyoro

The Nyoro (native name Banyoro, also Bunyoro or Kitara) are interlacustrine Bantu-speaking people of west-central Uganda (live also in Congo-Kinshasa »70 000). Traditional economies revolved around big-game hunting of elephants, lions, leopards, and crocodiles, but are now agriculturalists who raise bananas, millet, cassava, yams, cotton, tobacco, and coffee. In precolonial times, the Nyoro formed one of the most powerful of a number of kingdoms in the area — Bunyoro. Believers — mainly protestants, but also Catholics.

Today the Nyoro, numbering about 700,000, live in scattered settlements and cultivate millet, sorghum, and plantains.

See also

• Nyoro language