The Kadam people inhabit
Mount Kadam
Mount Kadam, is near the east border of Karamoja, Uganda with Kenya and has an approximate elevation of . It is just north of Mount Elgon. It was first climbed by Sailesh Kadam, the mountain's namesake.
During the colonial period Mount Kadam was ...
in
Nakapiripirit District
Nakapiripirit District is a district in Northern Uganda. Like many other Ugandan districts, it is named after its 'chief town', Nakapiripirit, where the district headquarters are located.
Location
The district is bordered by Napak District to t ...
in the
Karamoja sub-region, located in north-eastern
Uganda.
History
They are closely related to the Tepeth/Tepes or So peoples who inhabit Mount Napak and
Mount Moroto, also in southern Karamoja. Some regard them as a sub-group of the Tepeth. There is very little written about them, but local oral history records all these groups as having been the inhabitants of wider areas of present-day Karamoja who took refuge in the mountains when the Karamojong arrived from Ethiopia in the 17th century (see
Karamojong people). They are one of the few peoples in Uganda to practise
Female Genital Mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found ...
Language
The Kadam speak the
Kadam Language, also known as ''yog toŋi'' which is a variant of the ''So'' language of the
Nilo-Saharan languages
The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari River, Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the ...
group. It is also closely related to the languages of the peoples mentioned above. The language is endangered;
those who speak Kadam/So as a first language are middle-aged and elderly, the younger generations speak mostly the
Pökoot or
Karamojong language
The Karamojong language (spelled ''ŋaKarimojoŋ'' or ''ŋaKaramojoŋ'' in Karamojong; Ngakarimojong or N'Karamojong in English) is a Nilotic language spoken by the Karamojong people in Northeast Uganda.
Ngakarimojong is a Nilotic language of t ...
.
References
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Ethnic groups in Uganda