A Bahima woman with her family's wooden milk pots (known as ekyanzi) and gourds, which are kept on a special raised step in a corner of the living room. Houses are often decorated with original African designs.The Bahima are Banyarwanda-speaking people live near the Rwanda border in southern Uganda. They keep long-horned Ankole cattle, an African taurine breed with origins dating back prior to the introduction of humped-back or zebu cattle into the Horn of Africa during the human invasions from Arabia in the seventh century BC.