Konjo

The Konjo ( pl. Bakonjo, sing. Mukonjo ) or Konzo are a people that lives in the Rwenzori Mountains of south-west Uganda.

According to the census of 1992 361.709 Bakonjo live in the plateaus, hills and mountain slopes up to 2200 meters. Traditionally, farmers and ranchers, they grow yams, sweet potatoes, beans, peanuts, soybeans, potatoes, rice, wheat, cassava, coffee, bananas and cotton, while herding goats, sheep and poultry. The Bakonjo practice traditional East African religions and Christianity. More recently, also Sunni Islam spreads increasingly among the Konjo. The Bakonjo also live on the western slopes of the Rwenzorirange in Congo.

The language of Bakonjo is called differently Rukonjo, Olukonjo, Olukonzo or Lhukonzo. She has linguistically up to 77% in common with Nande. There are many clans, including Sanza ( Ekisanza ).

The Bakonjo were part of the Rwenzururu movement against the Kingdom of Toro and later against the central government, which reached its high points in the mid-1960s and in the early 1980s. In 2008, the government recognized the Kingdom of Rwenzururu, which was supported by the Bakonjo and the Amba, as Uganda's first kingdom, which is shared by two nations.

Known Bakonjo are Amon Bazira, who played an important role in the negotiations that ended the 1980 conflict and Charles Mumbere, called the Omusinga, the king of Rwenzururu kingdom.