The Uduk are a Nilo-Saharan group from eastern Sudan. They call themselves Kwanim Pa and are culturally and linguistically related to neighboring communities, such as the Gumuz and the Kwama from the Sudan-Ethiopia borderland. Due to the recent war in southern Sudan they have been forced to emigrate to other countries, especially Ethiopia. Following the peace agreement in 2005, some Uduk have started to return home.

The Uduk adhere to their traditional religion along with Christianity or Islam which incorporates traditional beliefs and practices.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ González-Ruibal, Alfredo (2014). An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-4422-3091-0.
  2. ↑ James, Wendy (1999). The Listening Ebony: Moral Knowledge, Religion, and Power Among the Uduk of Sudan. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-823416-6.
  • James, Wendy. 1979. `Kwanim Pa: The making of the Uduk people. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  • Sudan Update


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