Uganda has no language that is understood by everyone. The Ganda, also called the Baganda, are the largest and wealthiest group. They live in central and southern Uganda. Their political and social organization is one of the most highly developed in central Africa. Most Ganda are farmers.
Women do much of the farm work.
The Ganda live in houses with corrugated iron roofs and walls of cement, cinder block, or mud. Like the Ganda, three other ethnic groups in southern Uganda had their own kings until 1967. Most of the people are farmers. But the Karamojong in the northeast and several other ethnic groups in the drier parts of the north lead wandering lives as herders. Karamojong men mat their hair with colored clay in elaborate patterns.