Some rural houses in this global village

The assembly is covered with dried grass,  then set on fire to bake the bricks

Gulu is populated by the ethnic group Acholi, who are originally Luo people from southern Sudan. Their traditional dwellings are circular in shape, literally one door/one room, low with no upper floors.

Foreground is the out-house

Latrines and bathrooms are "out-houses" and shared. There are also rectangular structures consisting of several doors; each door is one dwelling.  I understand that this housing used to be the workers' quarters during the colonial period.  Bungalows and houses with upper floors are very few and some mid-rise buildings are currently under construction.

Houses in town

Uganda has a decentralized form of local government with two parallel hierarchies - that of the politicians, and the technocrats or civil servants. The smallest unit is the village which belongs to a parish which in turn forms a sub-county.  The sub-county (or division) belongs to a county (or town) which comprises a district.

Everyone belongs to a village

Outside town, the dwellings are mostly circular huts. In some villages, tribal chiefs

Village of a prominent person

still live and rule among their people.

Interior of a dwelling

Compare the village huts to the wigwams of the American Indians, the igloos of the Eskimos, the boat houses and nipa huts in the Philippines. 

    Newly built hut

They have their own unique designs and make - suitable to the weather conditions, the terrain, and the available building materials. I noticed though that none of these Acholi dwellings have make-shift walls or roofs made of scrap materials - a common sight in some areas back home.

A child in his home

Isn't the world one global village where we live in our peculiar dwellings with our own tribes and rulers?  Some people though in this modern age have the choice to live in recreational mobile homes, camping tents, luxurious yachts, high-tech mansions, and furnished tree-houses. They are, perhaps a new tribe..........