For decades, the small Ik community in Kaabong district was lumped together with the much larger Dodoth people and hence their distinct identity and language suffered near extinction.
For decades, the small Ik community in Kaabong district in Karamoja sub-region was lumped together with the more known Dodoth people.
Because the small community was overshadowed for long by the more numerous Dodoth and other more well known communities, the interests of the Ik were never well catered for largely because they did not have representation to air out their voice.
The last part of the five-part series on the Ik people tells the struggle of the Ik to maintain their distinct identity and their decades long fight to get representation at both the local and national stage.
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