Baggara

"That the chief's arm will soon be well; that the young chief his son will soon be well; and that the great Hakim and his slaves are to have no fear, for the Baggara are their friends."

In the Mahdi's Grasp George Manville Fenn 1870

The Baggara were the fiercest and most independent of Sudan’s tribes.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

The Baggara were the fiercest and most independent of Sudan’s tribes.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

The Baggara were the fiercest and most independent of Sudan’s tribes.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

The area of the Baggara attack was marked by a sun-bloated collection of dead horses and men.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

A form of Mehen evidently continued to be played by the Baggara Arabs of the Sudan called "the Hyena game."

Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

A form of Mehen evidently continued to be played by the Baggara Arabs of the Sudan called "the Hyena game."

Mehen Jan 2008

Although the Nile tribes derided the Baggara as recent, ignorant converts to Islam who still worshipped rocks and trees, the Mahdi adopted the Baggara as the backbone of his army.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Reaching the Nile at Dueim, the Baggara massed awestruck on the banks of the first major river they had ever seen.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Having revised his aversion to infidel technology, the Mahdi issued the six thousand Remingtons to Khalifa Abdullahi and his Baggara.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007