BOOK REVIEWS: Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana

BOOK REVIEWS: Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana

According to its basic outline, the Gray Bull Engiro was captured along the banks of the Longiro River by Orwakol, the founder of the Jie polity, several hundred years ago. The second defines the Jie term for "history" or "historical traditions" (eemut), and explains how performe...

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