Humr

The belt of territory, spanning primarily Chad and Sudan, inhabited by tribes within the Baggara grouping. The territory of the Humr lies in the eastern part of this belt in the Kordofan region of Sudan.

The Humr (also known as Humur, Arabic: همور, romanized: Hūmūr, lit. 'red') are one of two branches of the Messiria, a subgroup of the Baggara ethnic group, native to the south-west province of Kordofan, Sudan. Speakers of Chadian Arabic, the Humr live in the area surrounding the towns of Babanusa, Muglad and Al Fula (Arabic: الفولة).

The Humr are divided into two groups - the Ajaira, who live in the area from Muglad to Abyei and the Felaita, who live in the vicinity of Babanusa, Alfoula and Kajira.[1] There are six clans in the Ajaira and five in the Falita, and thus twelve Humrawi clans in all.[citation needed] Anthropologist Ian Cunnison lists the clans of the two divisions of the Humr as the Ajaira consisting of the Fayyarin, Awlád Kamil, Mezaghna, Fadliya, Menama and Addal clans, and the Felaita consisting of the Metanin, Ziyud, Awlád Serur, Jubarat and Salamat clans.[2]

The people who govern each tribe are known as the "Nazir" (Arabic: ناظر, lit. 'leader').[3]

  1. ^ Pantuliano, Sara (2010). "Oil, land and conflict: the decline of Misseriyya pastoralism in Sudan". Review of African Political Economy. 37 (123): 7–23. ISSN 0305-6244.
  2. ^ Cunnison, Ian (1966). Baggara Arabs: Power and the Lineage in a Sudanese Nomad Tribe. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. ^ Wakeel, Ahmed S. El; Gumaa, Abuelgasim Yousif (1996). "Some traditional husbandry and ethnoveterinary practices of the Messerya Humr Baggara transhumants of southern Kordofan". Nomadic Peoples (39): 147–154. ISSN 0822-7942.