Sudan tribes wrestle in greeting - 26 Aug 07

The Baqqara Tribes of central Sudan mark the end of the cattle herding season with celebrations, including wrestling matches.
Rawya Rageh reports for Al Jazeera on the tradition.

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[jum54]

What is Bagara there is no tribes called Bagara in Sudan. Those who say we are Bagara they don't know theirs background. Bagara are cattle's names not tribe name. Please go back to your history and find out what is Bagara.

[afrircans1970]

SLAVERY IN SUDAN? I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! SURLY, NOT IN THIS DAY & AGE. AND SURLY NO ISLAMIC INDIVIDUAL WOULD BE INVOLVED IN SLAVERY....

It's time to stop pointing fingers at the home of others & clean one's own house.

[ProductofPhilly]

Salaam. Please, Can some one explain the rules of Nubian Wrestling? What is allowed to touch the ground and how to you win a match? Cause sometimes it seems like the guy is thrown or taken down but they keep fighting?

[chevyhasawii]

sudanese are arabs and muslims originally

[TruAfric]

though your post was of long ago,I m drawn in to comments on it. believe or not first Arabs who crossed over be Mohamed brought with them trading which involves different items including people. Khartoum was port to caravans going to West Africa. Recently around 17th to early 19th slavery legal in Sudan. now africans who used to be slaves even free are still of lower status than non Arabs. so it becomes favorable culturally. This is islamic with no denials.

[magaiyo]

DSNCB119,

That is partly true! As black as they appear, because they have been "muslimized" they consider themselves arabs. In respect to South Sudan, the Baggara come down southwards to raids the cattles and kidnap the children of Dinka tribe on their herding expendition. Although the Baggara consider themselves arabs, their "arab"identity is somewhat unauthentic.

[magaiyo]

....It would not be far-fetched to conclude that the Baggara and Misseriya grievance against the so-called "non-rab"tribes of the Sudan is derived from their will and determination to do anything possible to authenticate and legitimize their "arab" identity.

Thanks. I hope that helps.

[magaiyo]

.....And likewise, the government of Sudan armed and dispatched the Baggara and other "Arab" ethnic groups still loyal to the government. Although they have been culturally arabized there claims of arab identity still don't match up to those of the real arabs of northern Sudan. And because of this they are still subject of the same racial categorization that has plagued Sudan....