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TREASURES OF AFRICA MUSEUM

The museum explores a linguistic echo of shared cognate foundation that arises in the language of a past-preserving people of north-east Uganda known as the Karamojong. In a period of 30 years spent among them after his arrival there as Agricultural Officer in 1952, began an extended interval of exploration and fact -finding about their environment including the survey of the soils of these 12,000 square mile area. As his knowledge grew though, he became increasingly aware of the possibility that their cultural heritage was unchanged element since remote pre-historic times which climaxed in his taking early retirement in 1968 in order to devote his time to a study of the matter and to amass a large collection of pertinent artefacts. The latter, through investigation, of their practice of tempering their pottery with asbestos or steatite (Wilson, 1973), brought him to compare first the outline of this unique ware with that of ancient European and Asian examples and then, to discover that specific names maintained by this society echoed in those of first Hebrew, then other languages. Resultantly there then emerged an extensive echo of shared cognate identity between this African tongue and those of both Asian and European examples. What proved to embrace a clear identification of words of shared agricultural and pastoral foundation, which could only have arisen at some point in the Pleistocene.

KEY WORDS: Uganda, Karamoja District, Karimojong people, Karimojong
language. Pleistocene connections.

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