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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] How about the Baggara? Everything I have seen states that they are ARABS, but if you look at their homeland it is ALL in INNER AFRICA. Many of the Janjaweed are said to originate from tribes of the Baggara. Seems to me that indeed many people mistake the ANCIENT nomadic way of life as being a sign of ARABIZATION. Nomadism is nothing but another form of PASTORALISM which EVERYONE knows is INDIGENOUS to Africa. Likewise, there are MANY PURE BLOOD Africans who have ADOPTED pastoralist lifestyles surrounding CAMELS rather than CATTLE. These groups, like the RENDILLE peoples, are related to other pastoralist groups like the Massai. Unfortunately, many people dont understand that the DESERTIFICATION of Northern Africa has FORCED people to ADAPT many traits that seem SIMILAR to the ARABS but are NOT Arabic. For example, the ANCIENT clothing of the Egyptian peasant is seen all over Africa, yet many may mistake it as some form of ARABIZED dress, when it isnt. But anyway, the information about the Baggara seem quite odd and does not seem to reflect any TRUE Arab identity. Of course, maybe SOME of these ARAB claims trace back to the ANCIENT connections between the cultures of SOUTH Arabia and Sudan, which indeed would be a LOGICAL fact. However, the ANCIENT Southern tribes of Arabia were much more SIMILAR physically to their African brethren, than those tribes most often identified with ARABS today. Unfortunately most modern scholars arent RIGOROUS enough in their research to POINT OUT such subtleties in the histories of these people and places. [QUOTE] The Baggara or Baqqarah (Arabic: البقارة) are a nomadic Bedouin people inhabiting Africa from between Lake Chad and the Nile, in the states of Sudan (particularly Darfur), Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and the Central African Republic. They are also known as Shuwa Arabs. They are cattle-herders, migrating seasonally between grazing lands in the wet season and river areas in the dry season. They are mostly speakers of the Shuwa dialect of Arabic. Origins and divisions Most are Muslims, thought to be partly descendants of Arab tribes who settled the region primarily from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, descendants of the Juhayna group of Arabs that trace their ancestry to Libya. Those Juhayna who moved south where rainfall was more plentiful, such as south of the Marrah Mountains, took up the herding of cattle and became known as the Baggara, literally "those of the cow" or "cattle people". Their kinspeople who stayed north remained Abbala, "camel-men". [/QUOTE] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baqqara And on a related note, while MANY claim that the "Arabs" in Sudan are all BLACK. I would like to point out that there are indeed MANY Arabs in the TRUE sense in Sudan. They are USING the BLACKS as COVER for their actions. From what I can see many of the tribes like those of the Baggara, which include the Habbania, Beni Halba, Rizeigat and Ta’isha are MAINLY black Africans but they have a CASTE system. This caste system means that the FATHER or LEADER of the clan and his IMMEDIATE KIN are most likely TRUE ARABS, who trace their lineages to the Arab invaders, while the REST are just "Arabized" locals. THIS is why there is SO MUCH confusion about the "Arabs" in Sudan. When Arabs enter an area, they KILL the men and RAPE the women, THEREFORE causing ALL the children to adopt the language, culture and IDENTITY of the ARAB FATHER or PATRIARCH. This is a HISTORICAL FACT throghout Africa. Trust me, there are MANY true ARABS in Sudan, but they are keeping a LOW PROFILE until the time is RIGHT. Many of these Arabs come from Libya and Egypt and were GRANTED land by the various Egyptian Sultans who CONTROLLED Sudan and took Sudanese slaves. Also, the British USED many of these "Arabized" groups to FOMENT unrest between "Arabs" and Africans (divide and conquer). This is the REAL root of the struggle in Darfur. Look here at Saeed Madibo in the center of the page and you will see what I mean: http://greatparanoiac.wordpress.com/2006/05/01/times-almost-up-in-sudan/ Also look here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/meandophelia/with/152983308/ [/QB][/QUOTE]
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