Kawahla people

Kawahla are an Arabic tribe inhabiting Eastern Sudan.[1][2][3] They speak Sudanese Arabic and members of this ethnicity are Sunni muslim. There are over 40 million members worldwide, with over 2 million in Southern Egypt (Al-Ababda) and 15 million in Morocco and Mauritania 15 million in KSA and Kuwait and about 15 million in Sudan. They were close neighbors with the Jumaiah and Nuba and thus their arab ancestors married from these two African ethnicities. The Kawahla are known to be the descendants of Al Zubair ibni Awam who migrated from the Mecca to Sudan over 1200 years ago.[4] and has exactly 36 segments of the tribe. It is also the biggest tribe in Sudan with over 200 tribe chiefs.

Most of the Kawahla are farmers, the main crops they grow are sorghum, wheat, cotton, beans (luba) and fruits such as La loba and Nabag. Studies of the Kawahla in Kurdufan found that they migrate away from the wet season pasture to grazing land near permanent wells to wait for the dry season.[5] In the 19th century, Hedley Vicars encountered the Kawahla, whom asked him to settle their dispute with other tribes.[6] Lord Edward Gleichen also wrote about the Kawahla.[7][8]

References
  1. Davis, H. R. J. (1986). Rural Development in White Nile Province, Sudan: A Study of Interaction Between Man and Natural Resources, Issue 59. United Nations University. p. 66. ISBN 9280805797. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  2. Johnson, David Hamilton; Anderson, David M. (2011). The Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from Northeast African History. I.B. Tauris. p. 158. ISBN 1870915003. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  3. Kramer, Robert S.; Lobban Jr., Richard A.; Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. Scarecrow Press. pp. 148–331. ISBN 0810879409. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  4. MacMichael, Harold Alfred (1922). A History of the Arabs in the Sudan and Some Account of the People who Preceded Them and of the Tribes Inhabiting Dárfūr, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 194. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  5. Jousse, Hélène; Lesur, Joséphine (2011). People and Animals in Holocene Africa: Recent Advances in Archaeozoology. Africa Magna Verlag. p. 105. ISBN 3937248277. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  6. Manger, Leif O. (1994). From the Mountains to the Plains: The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba Into Sudanese Society. Nordic Africa Institute. p. 44. ISBN 9171063366. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  7. The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Volume 1. Sudan: H. M. Stationery Office. 1905. pp. 109–325. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  8. Gleichen, Edward (1905). The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: A Compendium Prepared by Officers of the Sudan Government, Volume 2. Sudan: H. M. Stationery Office. pp. 67–164. Retrieved September 8, 2015.


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