Hadendoa (from Beja Hada, chief, and endowa, people) is the name of an East African nomadic tribe of Hamitic origin. 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. East Africa is a region generally considered to include: Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Somalia Tanzania Uganda Burundi, Rwanda, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, and Sudan are sometimes considered a part of East Africa. ... Communities of nomadic people move from place to place, rather than settling down in one location. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... 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 (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jamaah. ...

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 Madhia, 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 name of Fuzzy-wuzzies among the British troops (this was likely the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's poem, "Fuzzy Wuzzy".) They earned an unenviable reputation during the wars by their hideous mutilations of the dead on the battlefields. After the reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan (1896-1898) the Hadendoa accepted the new order without demur. The Fuzzy Wuzzies were 19th century warriors of the Sudanese Mahdi. ... Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. ...

References

From the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

• Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by Count Gleichen (London, 1905)
• Sir F. R. Vingate, 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)

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