Acholi

acholi acho'li English Alternative forms en Acoli Acooli Akoli Atscholi Shuli Pronunciation en /əˈtʃoʊ.li/ GA Noun s * en often in the plural A member of people in northern Uganda and southern Sudan. 2004 C. Keitesi ["a former CI soldier who served with the NRM/A in northern Uganda"], in her autobiography, quoted in 2013, Opiyo Oloya, Child to Soldier: Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, University of Toronto Press (9781442664258): To him every Acholi was a rebel, [...]. Every time we captured an Acholi, we had to kill them, and Drago hated this. en 2012 Ramkrishna Mukherjee The Measure of Time in the Appraisal of Social Reality Primus Books 9789380607269 10 The Acholis had barely given up hunting over a generation and now were growing the main cashcrops which were [...]. When further asked what would be the bride price for an Acholi, he blandly stated it as 100 shillings; ... Proper noun A Nilo-Saharan language spoken primarily by this people, in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, a region known as Acholiland in northern Uganda. See also About the Acholi people ach Acholi language ach Anagrams en achilo -aholic cholai lochia en Ethnonyms Languages