ABSTRACT
Living in a mud hut and working alongside Karamojong culture concerning their interests in agriculture, water and health was a thorough way of becoming acquainted with it. A Karamojong child is not born just into a nuclear family but into a long series of communities occupying progressively wider territory, which he soon learns from the activities of the rest of his family. The Karamojong have their own sense of salvation history, having been led to the good country of their own land, despite the threat of ogres and rivers in spate. Traditional Karamojong religion has no written and few oral texts, the akigat liturgy coming closest. Being familiar with the cognate lexemes not only lets the outsider into the resonance of meaning available to the speaker of Ngakaramojong, but also opens the way to etymologies they have forgotten. Communication is intracultural and cross-cultural, as well as intimately connected to history by memory and the communication of tradition.
