Gawamaa

Gawamaa or Gawam'a is a Sudanese Arab tribe. ^{[1] [2] [3]} They are a large sedentary tribe in North Kordofan, and sections of them also helped form the Halafa sub-group of the Hawazma tribe, itself a sub-group of the larger Baggara group. ^[4] According to British colonial administrator Harold MacMichael, the Gawamaa were one of six non-Hawazma tribes integrated into the Hawazma tribe in the mid-eighteenth century by way of an oath. ^[4]

The number of its members is about 750,000. The members of this group speak Sudanese Arabic. All members of this group are Muslims.

References

1. MacMichael, H. A. (2011-03-17). A History of the Arabs in the Sudan: And Some Account of the People who Preceded Them and of the Tribes Inhabiting Dárfūr. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-108-01025-2.
2. Abdalla, Gihan Adam (2013). The Influence of Financial Relations on Sustaining Rural Livelihood in Sudan: Reflecting the Significance of Social Capital in Al Dagag Village North Kordofan State, Sudan. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN   978-3-643-90403-4.
3. Area Handbook for the Republic of the Sudan. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1964.
4. Komey, Guma Kunda (2008). "The autochthonous claim of land rights by the sedentary Nuba and its persistent contest by the nomadic Baggara of South Kordofan/Nuba Mountains, Sudan". In Rottenburg, Richard (ed.). Nomadic–sedentary relations and failing state institutions in Darfur and Kordofan, Sudan. Halle: University of Halle. p. 114.