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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 Zaghawa of Sudan are among the peoples living in the refugee camps in Darfur and eastern Chad where the recruitment of child soldiers into rebel movements is an ongoing problem. [23] The Zaghawa have been among the tribes in Darfur who have been referred to as "African" even as other tribes that have fought with them have been called "Arab ...
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.
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 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. [2]
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The Kabka Sultanate, also called the Sultanate of Kabka and the Kabka Sultanate of Tundubay, [1] is a remote Zaghawa-populated country subdivision on the Sudanese frontier within Chad. It was created [ 2 ] by Chadian President Idriss Deby in order to appease Zaghawa nationalism and national pride .
In early 1991, non-Arabs of the Zaghawa tribe of Sudan attested that they were victims of an intensifying Arab apartheid campaign, segregating Arabs and non-Arabs. [110] Sudanese Arabs, who controlled the government, were widely referred to as practicing apartheid against Sudan's non-Arab citizens. The government was accused of "deftly ...