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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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