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2020
Abstract Islam entered the Sudan as early as the 7th century in a peaceful process. It is clear from both literary and archaeological evidence that Islam has had a presence in Sudan since the first century of the Muslim era, the result of a nonorganized, peaceful process in the Nile Valley, and in the Sahel and deserts through the ...
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Abstract Islam entered the Sudan as early as the 7th century in a peaceful process. It is clear from both literary and archaeological evidence that Islam has had a presence in Sudan since the first century of the Muslim era, the result of a nonorganized, peaceful process in the Nile Valley, and in the Sahel and deserts through the ...
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Pastoral Nilotes and British Colonialism
Ethnohistory, 1981The pastoral Nilotic-speaking Atuot of the Southern Sudan, as well as their neighbors, the Nuer and Dinka, responded to the two phases of British colonial rule in the Southern Sudan in two rather different ways. This essay examines the nature of these responses, first to a general lack of administrative policy and then to a policy which could be ...
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Vowel length in western nilotic languages
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 1990Abstract The Western Nilotic languages exhibit considerable variation as to their number of vowel phonemes, this number ranging from 15 in Dholuo to at least 59 in Dinka, while Pari has 24 vowel phonemes. Most of the variation is due to differences with respect to vowel length.
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Haemoglobin P-Nilotic containing a β-δ Chain
Nature New Biology, 1973HAEMOGLOBIN P has been found amongst Nilotic populations of the then Belgian Congo, now called Zaire1,2 (Hb P Congo), and in the USA (Hb P Galveston)3. The abnormality in Hb P Galveston has been identified as β117 G19 His→Arg3, but the abnormality in Hb P Congo seems to be more complex and it has been suggested by Lehmann and Charlesworth4 that it is a
F M, Badr, P A, Lorkin, H, Lehmann
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Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan
The Geographical Journal, 1933THIS book is the second to be published in a series of works on the ethnology of Africa edited by Mr. J. H. Driberg and Dr. I. Schapera. In his introduction to the book, Sir Harold Mac-Michael, Civil Secretary to the Sudan Government, points out that though a good deal has been written at one time or another concerning various tribes inhabiting the ...
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2004
“We see a similarity between the Dinka and the ancient culture of Egyptians.” Samuel Bulen Alier, a Bor-Atoc Dinka artist Archaeological studies strongly suggest that the most populous Nilotic culture of present South Sudan, the Dinka, did not arrive in the region until the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries.
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“We see a similarity between the Dinka and the ancient culture of Egyptians.” Samuel Bulen Alier, a Bor-Atoc Dinka artist Archaeological studies strongly suggest that the most populous Nilotic culture of present South Sudan, the Dinka, did not arrive in the region until the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries.
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American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1963
D F, Roberts, D R, Bainbridge
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D F, Roberts, D R, Bainbridge
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Tone and the Nilotic case system
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1974In a number of Nilotic languages spoken in East Africa it has been shown that there exists formal marking of case based exclusively on tonal differentiation. This has been fully described in Maasai (Tucker and Mpaayei, 1955) and all investigated Kalenjin dialects (Tucker and Bryan, 1962. 1964–5).
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Egyptian Fauna in Nilotic Scenes
2023The land of Egypt was fought over and incorporated into Rome's mentality in a similar way to the conquest of Greece: the conquered subjugated the conqueror and, through its culture, bound him to itself in a way that was as subtle as it was indissoluble.
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The Nilotic Contribution to Bantu Africa
The Journal of African History, 1982It is argued that the Nilotic contribution to Bantu Africa consisted essentially in the infiltration of Early Iron Age communities practising a mainly agricultural economy in certain specially favourable environments by a new mode of food production in which cattle-keeping played an important part.
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