Minority Communities & Leadership Programme Projects
The Ateker Initiative
Africa Leadership Institute is steering the regional Ateker
Initiative. The ‘Ateker’ are the Itung’a-speaking group of Nilotes whose cradle
is historically traced to a land between the Blue Nile and White Nile of present day Sudan. They
are bound by ethno-linguistic ties and practice nomadic pastoralism as their main livelihood
activity. They inhabit the borderland area straddling four countries in the Eastern and Horn of
Africa region. The Core Ateker Group today includes the Toposa, Didinga, Nyanga’atom, Jie,
Murule, Tenet and the Buya who inhabit Eastern Equatoria State in Southern Sudan; the Nyang’atom
and Dassenach who inhabit the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPRS)
in Ethiopia, as well as the Turkana of Kenya and the Karimojong - of Uganda who include the Dodoth,
Jie, Matheniko, Bokora, Pian, Ik, Tepeth, Nyangiya, Bira, Nyakwai, Ethur and Karamoja-Pokot.
“Cradle of Mankind Triangle” (Uganda, Kenya and Sudan) inhabited by the “The KAPOTOTUR”
(Karamojong, Pokot, Toposa and Turkana) Tribes-members of Ateker cluster. Read more
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