Word: fashoda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month the passing of Ret Fafiti (rets, like Christian Scientists, do not die) brought the stately Shilluk peers into conclave. The peers elected the 30th in a long line of rets: middleaged, blue-black Anei Kur, prepared to install him at Fashoda...
...approached the sacred river, they chanted age-old incantations, their meanings lost in history. At Nile-edge they met another bodyguard, bearing bamboo poles with ostrich feathers, defending the revered founder, Nyakang. With thongs of twisted grass, the guards of Nyakang bound the willing Anei Kur, marched him into Fashoda...
...Britain and France almost came to blows over possession of Fashoda, key to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Kitchener of Khartoum won the day for England...