A Rukiga farmers’ song in praise of sorghum, one of their staple crops, from the Bakiga “people of the mountains”, who straddle the border between northern Ruanda and southern Uganda.
Sorghum, sorghum, O sorghum,
sorghum and Kiga are one…
Oral Poetry from Africa
Filed Under: Praise-Poems
A Rukiga farmers’ song in praise of sorghum, one of their staple crops, from the Bakiga “people of the mountains”, who straddle the border between northern Ruanda and southern Uganda.
Sorghum, sorghum, O sorghum,
sorghum and Kiga are one…
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