ABSTRACT
The Lugbara are a Sudanic-speaking people, numbering in all some 242,000, of whom 183,000 live in northwestern Uganda and the remainder in the adjoining areas of the Congo Republic. Their country is high and fertile, and with their traditional economy of millet and sorghum growing they were quite self-sufficient. It is only since the introduction of cash and the need to pay taxes that they have had to widen their economy to grow cash crops (mainly tobacco) and to send out their young men as labour migrants to the cotton-growing regions of southern Uganda.
