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The 'Nyoro' (native name 'Banyoro', also 'Bunyoro' or 'Kitara') are interlacustrine Bantu-speaking people of west-central Uganda (live also in Zaire [about 70 000]). Traditional economies revolved around big-game hunting of elephants, lions, leopards, and crocodiles, but are now agriculturalists who raise bananas, millet, cassava, yams, cotton, tobacco, and coffee. In precolonial times, the Nyoro formed one of the most powerful of a number of kingdoms in the area — Bunyoro. Believers — mainly protestants, but also Catholics.
Today the Nyoro, numbering about 700,000, live in scattered settlements and cultivate millet, sorghum, and plantains.

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★ Nyoro language