Hadendoa circa 1914

Hadendoa is the name of an East African nomadic tribe. They, like the Bisharin and Ababda, belong to the Beja people. The area inhabited by the Hadendoa is today parts of Sudan, Egypt, and Eritrea. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...  Eastern Africa (UN subregion)  East African Community  Central African Federation (defunct)  geographic, including above East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easternmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. ... Communities of nomadic people move from place to place, rather than settling down in one location. ... The Bisharin are a Sunni Muslim tribe of the Beja nomadic ethnic group in the eastern part of the Nubian Desert in Sudan; they live in the Atbai between the Nile River and the Red Sea, north of the Amarar and south of the Ababda. ... The Ababda (or Ababde) (the Gebadei of Pliny, possibly the Troglodytes of classical writers), are a nomad tribe of African Bedouins, a subgroup of the Beja people; some still speak the Cushitic Beja language, while others speak Arabic. ... Beja can refer to: The Beja people, an ethnic group in the Horn of Africa The Beja language Beja, Portugal Béja, Tunisia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

The language of the Hadendoa is a dialect of Bedawi, a Cushitic Afro-Asiatic language. Arabic is also spoken among the Hadendoa. Sunni Islam is the religion of the Hadendoa. Beja (also called Bedawi, Bedauye, To Bedawie) is an Afro-Asiatic language of the southern coast of the Red Sea, spoken by about two million nomads in parts of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. ... The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic. ... Map showing the distribution of Afro-Asiatic languages The Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family of about 240 languages and 285 million people widespread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... Sunni Muslims are the largest denomination of Islam. ...

According to Roper (1930), the name Haɖanɖiwa is made up of haɖa 'lion' and (n)ɖiwa 'clan'. Other variants are Haɖai ɖiwa, Hanɖiwa and Haɖaatʼar (children of lioness).

The Hadendoa are traditionally a pastoral people, ruled by a hereditary chief who, in colonial times, was directly responsible to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan government. Osman Digna, one of the best-known chiefs during the Mahdia, was a Hadendoa, and the tribe contributed some of the fiercest of the dervish warriors in the wars of 1883-1898. So determined were they in their opposition to the Anglo-Egyptian forces that the name Hadendoa grew to be nearly synonymous with rebel. This, however, was the result of Egyptian misgovernment rather than religious enthusiasm, as the Hadendoa of the time were true Beja, and Muslims only in name. Their elaborate hairdressing gained them the derogatory name of Fuzzy-wuzzies among the British troops (this was likely the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's poem, "Fuzzy Wuzzy".) They earned a reputation during the wars by their supposed mutilations of the dead on the battlefields. After the reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan (1896-1898) the Hadendoa accepted the new order without demur. Osman Digna Osman Digna (Arabic: عثمان دقنة )(c. ... Skifa Kahla, ancient gate to the city Marine cemetery in Mahdia Mahdia, Arabic: المهدية (al-Mahdiya), is a Tunisian coastal city with 37,000 inhabitants, south of Monastir and southeast of Sousse. ... The Fuzzy Wuzzies were 19th century warriors of the Sudanese Mahdi. ... This article is about the British author. ...

References

From the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

• Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by Count Gleichen (London, 1905)
• Sir F. R. Wingate, Mahdism and the Egyptian Sudan (London, 1891)
• G. Sergi, Africa: Anthropology of the Hamilic Race (1897)
• A. H. Keane, Ethnology of the Egyptian Sudan (1884)

Roper, E.M.: Tu Bedawie : an elementary handbook for the use of Sudan government officials. (Hertford, 1930)

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