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Historically, the Zaghawa people held a sort of hegemony over most of the smaller societies that stretched along the Sahel between Lake Chad to the Nile valley kingdoms of Nubia, Makuria and Alwa. Zaghawa people's distribution in Chad and Sudan. The Zaghawa people were trading with the Nile region and the Maghreb regions by the 1st millennium.
A Cluster of 4 Zaghawa Groups in 2 countries; The Zaghawa (who refer to themselves as the Beri), are scattered throughout central Africa in the countries of Chad and Sudan. All of the groups, including the Awlad Mana, speak Zaghawa (sometimes called Beri), which belongs to the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
The term "blacksmith" has been a derogatory term in Zaghawa culture, states Anne Haour – a professor of African studies and medieval archaeology– and "if born a blacksmith one will always be a blacksmith". [210] Non-blacksmith castes of Zaghawa neither eat nor associate with the blacksmith castes. [211] The lowest strata has been the slaves.
In the 8th century, Wahb ibn Munabbih used Zaghawa to describe the Teda-Tubu group, in the earliest use of the ethnic name. Al-Khwarizmi also mentions the Zaghawa in the 9th century, as did ibn al-Nadim in his Al-Fihrist [6] in the 10th century. Kanem comes from anem, meaning "south" in the Teda and Kanuri languages, and hence a geographic term.
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Dar Tama (Arabic: دار تاما) is one of three departments in Wadi Fira, a region of Chad.Its capital is Gueréda, 165 kilometres (100 mi) northeast of Abéché. [1] The population consists primarily of non-Arab tribes. [1]
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