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Lugbara

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Lugbara

Member of any of the Sudanic-speaking peoples of northwestern Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). They farm by shifting cultivation and have no centralized political authority. Power is vested in elders and rainmakers. They practise ancestor worship.


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From his study particularly of the Navaho and Lugbara groups, he concludes:
In Paradise, one can see Dante's Divine Comedy, Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers, stories of origins, migrations, and the writing and interpreting of Laws, the Gospels, as well as African creation myths of "Paradise Lost" of the Nuer, Tutsi, Lugbara, Dinka, and Yoruba people, rewritten from African American perspectives.
 
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