The story should certainly be an enlightenment to future generations of Nubi. However, the people of Africa, as a continent, and East Africans in particular, will be alerted to its cross-cutting ramifications and the lingering necessity to arrive, gradually and systematically, at African solutions to African problems.
After all, there are minority Nubi populations in the DRC, South Sudan, Tanzania and Kenya. Kibera, where the Nubi are found in Kenya, is a significant location in the Oscar-winning, Hollywood film The Constant Gardener.
There will be different perspectives for different readers, but it is possible to paint the big picture.
Over centuries, several ethnic groupings came together, through intermarriage, to form a “mixture” community much influenced by Arabian culture and religion. They identified themselves as Muslims and spoke Ki-Nubi, a hybrid language of their own.
The men became soldiers for hire and, with their women and children in tow, they became enforcers. Firstly, of the imperialist agenda in colonial times, to help secure the “straight line crazy” boundaries created by the Scramble for Africa. Thereafter, they sustained their military enforcer role in the army of Uganda, at Independence, in 1962.
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