The traditional Karamojong town of Nakapelmoru, in Karamoja Region, northeastern Uganda. Photographs by Ssebuuma Ivan, a.k.a. The Ugandan Travel Photographer.

The traditional Karamojong town of Nakapelmoru, in Karamoja Region, northeastern Uganda. Photographs by Ssebuuma Ivan, a.k.a. The Ugandan Travel Photographer. 

The Karamojong are a Nilotic speaking agro-pastoralist population. A subgroup of the Ateker peoples, which includes the Lango, Jie, Turkana, Toposa, Nyangatom and Teso, who migrated southward from their original homelands in the border regions of South-Sudan and Ethiopia in the 1600’s. 

The Karamojong were once part of the Jie. The name “Karamojong” is derived from the phrase “ekar ngimojong", meaning "the old men can walk no further”, referring to the time when the elderly sections of the Jie refused to move further south with the younger pastoral sections, who moved on to form their own communities.