The following paper investigates the (in)definiteness of bare nouns in Dholuo an article-less Nilo-Saharan language. Dayal (1999, 2004, 2011a,b, 2017) posits that bare nouns in article-less languages (e.g., Hindi, Russian, and Mandarin) are kind denoting and definites, but not true indefinites. Based on this, she further argues that Chierchia’s (1998) ranking of covert type-shifts (nom > {iota, ∃}) should be revised to {nom, iota} > ∃. Furthermore, Carstens (2023) and Carstens et al. (forthcoming) demonstrates that bare nouns in Swahili and Xhosa (both article-less languages) are true definites and true indefinites. In this paper, I demonstrate that Dholuo bare nouns are true definites and true indefinites as well. At first glance, this appears to go against the ranking of covert type-shifting and the findings from Dayal (1999, 2004, 2011, 2017). However, as Carstens (forthcoming) suggests, the size and category of nominals without articles may be closely connected to (in)definiteness. In Dees (under review), I provide a DP analysis of Dholuo nominal expressions comparable to the DP analysis Carstens (1991, 1993, 2008, 2011, 2023) provides for Bantu languages. Assuming Bošković’s (2008, 2012) NP/DP parameter, and assuming that Dholuo is an exception to the parameter (i.e., Dees, under review), I argue that there are structural differences between Dholuo (cf. Carstens 2023) and certain other article-less languages (i.e., Hindi, Russian, Mandarin). More specifically, Dholuo projects a DP and other article-less languages do not [see, e.g. Dayal (2011a) on Hindi]. I present that the DP structure in Dholuo is made visible by N-movement operations, whereas Hindi (as well as Russian and Mandarin) must rely on covert-type shifting, since they lack both ways that DP can be made visible (articles and N-raising). This is why Hindi and Russian adhere to Dayal’s ranking of covert type-shifts and Dholuo does not.