Most communities in Uganda, however, are not…

Most communities in Uganda, however, are not organized on such a vast political scale.

To the north, the Nilotic-speaking Acholi people had adopted some of the ideas and regalia of kingship from Bunyoro in the eighteenth century.

Chiefs (rwots) acquire royal drums, collect tribute from followers, and redistribute it to those who are most loyal.

The mobilization of larger numbers of subjects permits successful hunts for meat.

Extensive areas of bushland are surrounded by beaters, who force the game to a central killing point in a hunting technique that will still be practiced in areas of central Africa in 1990, but these Acholi chieftaincies remain  relatively small in size, and within them the power of the clans remains strong enough to challenge that of the rwot.