Asked some elders and people in Karamoja (today's spelling for Karamojo) if they had heard about a white man who came looooooooong time ago in the region and was a great elephant hunter.

The short story of what an elder told me, amidst strong approving nods and interjections from several onlookers who knew the story too:

"The first white man who came was called Lon'gelly-Nyang... this means that he was that colour (he shows me a yellow/red rusted patch on a zinc wall) and had a bald patch or was bald... He came before the British came, he hunted many elephants... After him, the other white men who came were called by this name, and later the name was used for the British Administrators. You see, people thought that since he was the first, he's the one who brought the others..."

The Karimojong warriors still stroll leisurely with their sticks and sometime their spears, cocky and nonchalantly defiant. The AK's have mostly gone from open display these days, cattle raiding is not what it used to be, and elephants have disappeared.

But memories remain...

That made my day ...

Good one Philip!
thanks

I didn't know they even knew me there