ABSTRACT
The Àcoólî form part of a group of peoples, or of a tribe, which split up about the year 1650; this original tribe was apparently called Lwóò. The traditional records, so far as they are known up to the present date, place this tribe among the most renowned of Central Africa. The Àcoólî tribe consisted and, to some extent, still consists of a great number of small kingdoms or chieftainships, i.e. groups ruled by a rwot (king) and dependent on nobody else. From the traditional history of migration and development of the original Lwóò tribe it is evident that in the course of time hetergeneous tribal elements of a much larger volume than their own have been incorporated and assimilated by the Lwóò. From the one group that migrated to Uganda have resulted six or seven distinct tribes with distinct ethnic features.
