Ager Gum

Ager Gum
Born1941
Dinkaland
Died1996 (aged 54–55)
AllegianceSudan
Service / branchArmy
RankGeneral
UnitSudan People's Liberation Army

Ager Gum (1941–1996) was a military leader and song composer from Sudan. She was an army general of the Sudan People's Liberation Army group, now the official army of the country of South Sudan.[1][2]

She was known to be an active member of the infamous female SPLA battalion "Katifa banat" that fought during the Sudanese Civil war against the Khartoum government.[2]

  1. ^ Gates, Professor Henry Louis Jr.; Akyeampong, Professor Emmanuel; Niven, Mr Steven J. (2012-02-02). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. ISBN 9780195382075.
  2. ^ a b Beswick, Stephanie (2004). Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in Early South Sudan. University Rochester Press. ISBN 9781580461511.