ABSTRACT
The Alur are a Nilotic people, some two hundred thousand strong, living west of Lake Albert and the Albert Nile, partly in northwestern Uganda and partly in the adjacent parts of the eastern Congo. The Nilotic Acholi are their close neighbours and relatives to the east, the Bantu Nyoro to the southeast, across Lake Albert. The Madi to the north and the Lendu (Bale) and Okebo (Ndo) to the west, are all Moru-Madi speaking Sudanic peoples upon many sections of whom the Alur had a profound political influence, while themselves being culturally influenced in many other respects.
