WHO ARE REALLY THE NUBIS OR NUBIANS IN UGANDA ?

By Ronald Okuonzi via UAH forum

They are the original true citizens of Lado but as Lado is disguised under the nick names in English as West Nile or ( North West of Uganda now ) , Southern Sudan and North Eastern Congo , in Uganda they became and simply are known as Nubis or Nubians and are too closely associated with Idi Amin’s rule in Uganda in that period of 1971 – 1972 .

In what sense are they associated with Idi Amin who was the President
of Uganda , 1971 —- 1979 ?

Ugandans prefered / and prefer to know and have Amin associated to this nick named group of the people ( Nubians ) .

These so citizen people of Lado because of their Religion faith ISLAM were supposed and easily aggregated to be the descendants of former soldiers of the Khedive of Egypt when the whole of Sudan and the Equatoria Lado was under the Rule of Turco – Egyptian Sudan . Especially a large number of these Soldiers who were based in Equatoria / Lado were under their Commandant Governor Emin Pasha who was ruling Lado Equatoria or well known as ” the Equatoria Province of Egypt ” for the Khedive Ismail of Egypt under the Ottoman Sovereignty .

Following the Arab Mahdi’s Islamic uprising and having defeated the Anglo – Turco – Egptian Soldiers and having created the Mahdist State , the Equatoria Lado was cut off from Egypt and no more under Egyptian Rule . So Emin Pasha who was ruling Lado for the Khedive of Egypt found himself with this bulk of the Army to Control and Govern Lado by himself alone . Not to live Soldiers floating in Lado , Emin Pasha made a deal with Lord Captain Federick Lugard of the British East Africa Company following the Kavalli Agreement signed between Lugard himself and Commandant of Lado Soldiers Major Salem Matera to join the King Africa Rifles which was being newly formed . Emin Pasha later ran away from Lado never to return to Lado anymore . More information , one can get from my Book – Lado the Occupied Territory – Heart of Africa .

The British desperately needed well trained Africa sodiers to carve out their British East African Empire . Bingo !

Lado became prerogative for the supplies of Military service men to the British as they were found excellent brave Soldiers , well trained by the Ottoman : Turco – Egyptian Army which had acquired similar British Training Military skills . Yes , these African soldiers later were , taken on by Frederick Lugard of the Imperial British East Africa Company and formed the core of the forces used to carve out much of Britain’s East African Empire .

Following the Military mutiny in 1897 against the British originating from Uganda , the mutiny had effect on these people and after the reprisal of the Mutiny by the British sodiers and the Indian — Asian soldiers brought in from India by the British , these people became Displaced Persons , the Stateless Persons and the Internal Refugee Problems arising among them and they became so called Nubians ( the Lado Muslim Community of mainly LUU / LUI people of Lado ) who eversince then were being held mainly in Uganda and Kenya as Prisoners in Reservation camps , the so called Restricted Settlements ( Bombo, Soroti and Gulu in Uganda and Kibira near Nairobi in Kenya ) , all this was started by the British since 1897 . The British always called anybody black person but as long as is of Moslem / Islam Faith is a Nubian – ” No wonder an ordinary Ugandan knows any foreigner of Moslem Faith is a Nubian ” . This has been the British teaching Lessons to Ugandans .

Repeat , These People were always referred to simply as ” The Nubians ” by the British though they are Muslims of Lado origin ( Luu and Lui People ) who were removed by the British Colonial Authority because of their Mutiny the same year 1897 when they were ordered to go and fight against their own People in Lado . Their leaders were executed in Uganda including their Military Commander , Bilal Amin , the Grandfather of Idi Amin the Former late President of Uganda 1971 – 1979 ( This Mutiny in Uganda was / is sometimes wrongly writen by some Historians quoting it as Sudanese Mutiny of 1897 in Uganda ) .

These people inother-words are not Sudanese as such but are of the Sudanic race in the vast Sudan ( The name Sudan meaning Black in Arabic anyway ) Territory of Africa . See the proper use of the word name Sudan in Arabic please .

Sudanese are the citizens of the Independent Republic States of Sudan ( both North and South Sudan States now in Africa being created by Great Britain and United States of America ) as we all know the truth . The adjective Sudanic electively used and refers , describes blacks in general . Inotherwards the Nubians described by the British said here are properly the Sudanic citizens of Lado and Nubia .

Note : The real truth behind is that —

The British have never forgotten nor forgiven the Lado Muslims for this Breach of Discipline , which explains why these displaced People referred to as ” The Nubians in East Africa “, and are still being punished now as ” Unwanted Persons ” . Apart from being held in the Special Settlements as Prisoners , the Lado Muslims ( Nubians ) are being heavily discriminated against in the British East Africa , very much like the American Indians were treated by the Europeans .

It is therefore and hereby noted further that : From the days of Emin Pasha to those of Idi Amin , some Nubi men were identified by a marking of three vertical lines on the face – the ‘ One-Elevens . Although since Amin’s overthrow now many Muslims from the North of Uganda ,men and women prefer to identify themselves as members of local Ugandan ethnic groups rather than as ‘Nubis / or Nubians’; leaving aspects of Nubi identity . After the overthow of Idi Amin from Lado / or so called West Nile by the British and later the name which Uganda / Ugandans inherited to disguise Lado , all those from West of the Nile became labelled as Nubians . Ugandans on any among Ugandan rebel groups that springs from West Nile / Lado , and who knows as well as in cyberspace .

Who was or is Idi Amin Awongo Dada ?

Amin was / is a KUKU / Kakua tribe of the people of West Nile / Lado born to the Mother a Lugbara and Father a Kuku / Kakua ( Lado Enclave State in Sudan Central Africa ) but not a Nubian . The real called Nubians were / are the ones who settled in the North of the Sudan State / formely called Anglo / Egyptian Sudan by the British which became independent in 1956 at the foot hill of Mt. Nuba and they had a Kingdom of their own which later was over run / conquired by the Ottoman , European and United States American Invaders .

Note : These real Black Nubians and Ladoans had an allegiance in the Rebellion to fight together against the Pharaonic Rule of Egypt over them when all of them were living in Egypt . They mantained a good relationship after their exodus from Egypt where they settled in the vast Territory Area which the Arabs often called ”The Sudan” — The name Sudan hereby has nothing to do with the present Independent Republic State of Sudan or the newly carved out South Sudan State by the Anglo / Americans in 2011 .

Initialy as said above , the Nubians settled at the foot of Mountain they calle Mt. Nuba and from that they took their identity as Nubians while the Ladoans settled at the foot of Mountain they called Mt. Lado from which they took their indentity as Ladoans in the vast East Sudan Lands of Africa . The truth , however , Ugandan People fail to see is that they do recognize themselves and their geographical Land Areas out of their Tribal Languages while Lado and Nubi People can not . Surely the British gave Ugandans their so called African Tropical Education and the Ugandans got it all . What a shame !!