Word: hadendowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short, stocky Ibrahim Abboud, 58, is known to his fellow officers as a fatherly type. Born on the Red Sea coast, a member of the Hadendowa tribe that furnished the Fuzzy-Wuzzies immortalized by Rudyard Kipling for breaking a British square, Abboud became an army lieutenant in 1921, served with the British in Eritrea and North Africa during World War II, emerged as a colonel commanding a camel corps, and was finally named chief of staff by Premier Khalil...
...both. In the swampy south and in Kordofan live the eccentric Nuers (who stand for hours, like cranes or herons, on one leg), the equally naked Nuba (whose chief adornments are grotesque, cicatrized tribal scars on cheeks and foreheads), and, along the Red Sea coast, the mop-haired Hadendowa (Kipling's Fuzzy-Wuzzies, who "broke a British square"). Inevitably, the primitive southerners distrust and dislike their more sophisticated Arabic countrymen in the north, who used to swoop down on their villages and carry off their sons and daughters for sale as slaves in the marts of the Middle East...
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