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Title: | 'Twixt Sirdar and Emperor: The Anuak in Ethio-Sudanese Relations 1902-1935 |
Author: | Zewde, Bahru |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | Northeast African Studies |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 79-93 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Sudan |
Subjects: | Anuak foreign policy ethnic warfare colonialism History and Exploration Inter-African Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43660301 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the role of the Anuak in Ethiopian-Sudanese relations in the period 1902-1935. The vast majority of Anuak, who are part of the Shilluk-Luo of Nilotic-speaking peoples, were placed on the Ethiopian side of the border by the 1902 Anglo-Ethiopian treaty which delimited the boundary between Ethiopia and the Sudan. However, delimitation was not followed by effective administration, which led to a series of Anuak raids in 1911 and following years and subsequent Sudanese and Ethiopian campaigns against the Anuak. The years immediately after 1916 did not witness any major campaigns directed against the Anuak. This period was characterized by a more subdued competition between the two governments to win Anuak allegiance. What emerges from this account are two patterns of Anuak reaction to Ethiopian authority: resistance and collaboration. The author concludes that, besides remoteness from the centre of both Ethiopian and Sudanese government power, the Anuak had the additional advantage of a transformation in their political and military organization, which prepared them to meet the challenge of alien intrusion. The latter, more than the former, bred and sustained Anuak resistance. Notes, ref. |