Gawamaa

Gawamaa

Gawamaa

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Gawamaa or Gawám'a is an arab Sudanese ethnic group.[1][2][3] They are a large sedentary tribe in North Kordofan, and sections of them also helped form the Halafa sub-group of the Hawazma tribe, itself a sub-group of the larger Baggara group.[4] According to British colonial administrator Harold MacMichael, the Gawamaa were one of six non-Hawazma tribes integrated into the Hawazma tribe in the mid-eighteenth century by way of an oath.[4]

The number of its members is about 750,000. The members of this group speak Sudanese Arabic. All members of this group are Muslims.

References

  1. [1]
    MacMichael, H. A. (2011-03-17). A History of the Arabs in the Sudan: And Some Account of the People who Preceded Them and of the Tribes Inhabiting Dárfūr. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-01025-2.
  2. [2]
    Abdalla, Gihan Adam (2013). The Influence of Financial Relations on Sustaining Rural Livelihood in Sudan: Reflecting the Significance of Social Capital in Al Dagag Village North Kordofan State, Sudan. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-643-90403-4.
  3. [3]
    Area Handbook for the Republic of the Sudan. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1964.
  4. [4]
    Komey, Guma Kunda (2008). "The autochthonous claim of land rights by the sedentary Nuba and its persistent contest by the nomadic Baggara of South Kordofan/Nuba Mountains, Sudan". In Rottenburg, Richard (ed.). Nomadic–sedentary relations and failing state institutions in Darfur and Kordofan,sinar Sudan. Halle: University of Halle. p. 114.


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