Am oluka and i come from Teso an ethinic group that is believed to have originated somewher what is now called Sudan and moved south over a period of centuries. It is not possible to calculate the time of this movement. during this movement, a group of Iteso is said to have separated from the Karamojong and moved further south.
This may have been a very early separation because the clan names and ritual customs associated with the second of two distinctive groups of Karamojong and Jie people are not found among the Iteso.
Unlike the other Teso-speaking ethnic groups, the Iteso have never been transhumant or nomadic; agriculture has played as significant a role in their social, economic, and expressive lives as cattle have among the other groups.
Iteso clan names reveal a history of long-standing ethnic interactions. Names of Bantu and Northern Nilotic origin are found among them. The Iteso were probably well established in their northern Uganda heartland by the mid-eighteenth century, when they began to move farther south.
The history of the Iteso and neighboring peoples has not been extensively doc**ented. Traditions recorded among the JoPadhola indicate there were two waves of Iteso migration.
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