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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.
Islamization began as early as the 8th century and was mostly complete by the 11th, when Islam became the official religion of the Kanem–Bornu Empire.The Shuwa established an economy of slave trade across the Sudan region, and in Chad there was a tradition of slave raids under the Ouaddai and Baguirmi which persisted well into the 20th century.
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.
The Zaghawa make up a significant minority and migrated during the Sahelian drought in the 1980s. [1] Both are non-Arab tribes. [ 2 ] Former Chadian president Idriss Déby is from the Zaghawa tribe.
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