Beja of the Red Sea Hills and Their Four Thousand Years Between River and Sea
Between the Nile and the Red Sea runs a country of arid hills whose people have watched empires pass for four thousand years. The Beja, camel breeders the pharaohs hired
Meroe: The African Kingdom of Kush With More Pyramids Than Egypt
In the deserts of Sudan, along the banks of the Nile far south of Egypt, rise scores of steep, narrow pyramids, the burial places of the kings and queens of
Nubians of the Middle Nile and Their Kingdoms Older Than the Lake
Upstream of Egypt, between the granite cataracts of the middle Nile, lives a people whose kingdoms once conquered the pharaohs and whose villages now lie partly under a lake bearing
Suakin: The Ruined Coral City of Sudan’s Red Sea Coast
On a small coral island in the Red Sea, linked to the Sudanese mainland by a single causeway, stands one of the most hauntingly beautiful ruined cities in Africa. This
The African Capital That Rivaled the Pharaohs: The Story of Kerma
Far south of the pharaohs, on the banks of the Nile in Sudan, rose one of Africa’s earliest great cities, a Nubian capital powerful enough to rival Egypt itself, crowned
The Fur, the People of Darfur and Their Sultanate
The Fur are the largest ethnic group of Darfur, the vast region of western Sudan whose very name, Dar Fur, means the land of the Fur. Numbering well over a
The Nuba, the Wrestlers of the Sudanese Mountains
The Nuba are the many peoples of the Nuba Mountains, a range of rocky hills rising from the plains of South Kordofan in central Sudan. Numbering perhaps a million or
The Zaghawa, the Desert Herders of Chad and Darfur
The Zaghawa, who call themselves the Beri, are a Saharan people of the Sahel, living across the border between eastern Chad and the northern part of Darfur in western Sudan.
