Guek Ngundeng

Guek Ngundeng (1890 - 1929) was a Nuer people's prophet and spiritual leader proclaimed seizure by the spirit of Deng(sky God) divinity and a son of the Nuer people's prophet Ngundeng Bong.[1][2][3][4] He was known to the Angelo-Egyptian colonial government in Sudan as a witch doctor.[5] He helped rebuild the Ngundeng Pyramid a few years after his father's death. He fought the colonial government in their campaigns to demolish the Pyramid and was eventually killed in action in 1929.[6][7]

In 1929, the Anglo-Egyptian colonial government in Sudan dispatched police and military operations under the Nuer district commissioner Percy Coriat to what was known as the "Nuer Settlement" in Upper Nile province. The event proceeded with the machinations of young Nuer prophet Guek Ngundeng, known to the colonial administration as a witch doctor, the son of the Nuer prophet Ngundeng Bong.[8][9]

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