{UAH} Who are the Ugandan LUO 'S and of their Origin as the Luo People ?

THE HISTORY LINES OF THE LUO WHO ARE ACTUALLY NUBIANS 

The Intricate Issue of the Luo – Nilotic presnce in Lado Kingdom extending then to Uganda and elsewhere in Africa  

>> - The presence of  the Luo – Nilotics in the Kingdom of  Lado - << which is answer to discover who are the Luo's in Uganda . 

The settlements of the Luo – Nilotics in Lado are the Populations of the Alur People or sometimes refered to them by the name as the Jonam people of Luo – Nilotic groupings according to the European system of groupings of the different African Peoples in the East Sudan of the Continent of Africa .

The European system groupings of the Africans in this Regions of East and Central Africa are based on the names they have attributed to call them as : Sudanics , Nilotics , Hamites or sometimes Nilo – Hamites and Bantu or Ntu Peoples who in their turn , dominate mostly the Central and South parts or Regions of Africa .

The Nilotics , principaly occupied the Middle Nile Valley which was best known and renamed as the Egyptian Sudan by the Ottomans , the rest of the Arabs and the European Vanguards who first Occupied it in from 1820 – 1841 . The Middle Nile was actually before being dominated by the Nuba People who lived as in their distinct  Kingdoms they formed of  :  Nobatia , Makuria , and Alodia Kingdoms  .

It must be noted hereby that Nobatia , Makuria and Alodia were one time as One Big Kingdom called Nuba Kingdom which was later defeated or conquered by the Ottomans and changed the name Nuba to Egyptian Sudan .

Luo – Nilotic grouping People were allowed to settle in Lado areas or Territories by the Agreement reached between the Luu – Sudanic People of Lado and the migrants of the Luo – Nilotic People in the East Sudan following the wars which took place and started , between Bari – Tribes of the Lui – Sudanic people of Lado and the migrants of Luo – Nilotic People in East Sudan , way back in 1650 , on Bari Lands of Lado .

The war was first waged on the Bari – Tribes of the Lui – Sudanics of North Lado Region of Lado by the Luo – Nilotic Settlers or Inhabitants of South Sudan of the Egyptian Sudan Territory with their Aims to have taken and Occupy the Land or Territories of Lado Kingdom . The War continued through the Lugbari – Luu Sudanic Land Areas of Lado passing through the foot Mountain Hill of Arua at a well known place called Barifa Area in Ayivu County of today and this is where the War reached its highest peak Battle ground fighting and lastly ended up at the foot Mountain of Mt . Logiri in Vura County of today in Lado .

The name Barifa , by the way , comes out of this War because in the Area , a lot of the Dead Body bones of the Sudanic – Bari and the rest of the Fighters were only seen everywhere in the Area and till today is a remembered Area by all Ladoans or Lado Peoples as History records by this given name as Barifa or Barifala .

Note :  

'' The word Fala means Bones in English Language versions and is a suffix added to Bari '' .

The Sudanic – Lugbari , joined in the Fight and stood strongly by the Bari Tribes as being of the same Sudanic - Ladoans to chase off from the Lado Lands the Migrant Nilotic – Luo People . A Peace Treaty , which became known as the River Odrua Agreement by the Lugbari – Tribe under the auspices of the Agofe or King of Lado was reached in year 1760 , thanks to the efforts of the King or Omukoma of Bunyoro Kingdom who acted as an Intermediary to end the War .

The whole Story of the Nilotic Alur  as the Luo people settlers in Lado is that :  they came about and are the descendants of both the Luu and Lui  – Sudanic and the Luo – Nilotic Peoples .

The Nilotic Soldiers best known as the Luo Warriors by that time during the War with the Sudanics , raped the Sudanic Women and many of these Women became pregnant with the Luo – Nilotic Soldiers or Warriors . Their babies of mixed race Tribes , with both Sudanic and Nilotic blood , who later became known as the Alur or Aluru – name given to them by the Lugbari – Luu Sudanic Tribes of Lado , had their destiny sealed by the Luo – Nilotic Leaders who ordered their Soldiers to kill the Babies . It was and is for this reason , the Sudanic Women with their Babies were all the time being taken to be hidden and protected by the Sudanic – Tribes People of the  LUU and LUI everywhere they lived in Lado Lands .

For easier Indentification of the Children , the Lugbari People called them Alurua Children meaning the Children with their Mothers for safety guidance . So in Lado , the name Alur / or Aluru comes from the Lugbari Sudanic Language versions as a nickname which is referred to a bird they call Alurua  .

The bird's habitat is on the ground , hidden in the grass and feeds at most on and for its diet on small bitter red peppers in the grass . These descendant Children of both Sudanic and Luo blood , then , after and becoming grown ups and with Paternal Tribal tendency insticts as it happens in all Human Cultures , would in future prefer to segregate themselves and prefer to live along the River shores of the Nile and Lake shores of Lake Albert in the Territory Areas of Mahagi with the Capital City Bunia which is located in the South – East part of Ituri Region of Lado till todate .

Infact most of the Alur People and out of their Food dietary needs became and turned out to be good Fishmongers , meaning of monger from Latin : mangò = salesman , so they came and come to be as good Fish salemen and women in Lado . This is the hard truth and as much known of their History Lines of the Alur Tribes of the Nilotic Luo in Lado .

The Alur's are somtimes known and called or referred to as the Jonam People by the Luo – Nilotic People , that is to say , in their Paternal Luo Language versions . Jonam meaning people of Water or living by the Water side which in this case is referring to or of them living by the Water shores of the River Nile and that of Lake Albert as already said above . In the long run slowly by slowly , the Alur or Jonam People started organisng themselves into various smaller groupings making smaller Tribal existences of their own Identifications of choice , hence forming Counties with their local Chiefs calling them as Rwots in their Luo Paternal Language , in Lado State Kingdom .

The notable Counties till todate are the  Okoro , Angal , Padyere , Jonam and others coming up yet . The Alur or Jonam continue to live in Lado which is their home place anyway and have been and are fully recognised in Lado , living in harmony with the rest of the Ladoans or Lado People , especially , with the Sudanic Lugbari , Madi , Lendu  ,  Kebu or Ndu Tribes as their immediate Neighbours covering the whole of the South Region Areas of Lado and frequently intermarriage amongst themselves without any frictions in between .

The Term Nilotics  :

The Term Nilotics which was introduced by the Europeans is actually and was being adopted by referring to the Luo People specifically in East Sudan , who to them were known as People living a long the River Nile and who kept on moving or migrating along the off shores of the River Nile . Infact , the Luos as such are good pastorilists and fishermen following their migration pathways a long the water river stream ways or  water lake coasts who in the end covered up large areas or Lands , living in Uganda , Kenya and extending up to Tanzania , all living nearby water Land Areas only .  

Notes on the term Nilotic  or Nilotes which often is linked to the Luo's being called so in the Nile Valley Regions  

The adjective term Nilotic , from the Name Nile , derives from the semetic word Nahal , which in Greek is Neilos and in Latin became as Nilus , in Italian as Nilo , in French as Nil and in English , Great Britain as the Nile which means  River or Water flow / or current water and this name then became attribuited to the current or flowing water from Egypt towards the interior of Africa being called simply The Nile or more phonetically good sounding as River Nile and all historical events became connected to the Nile , The River , in the times of the Ancient Black Egypt .

The Origin of the Luo People

Why Luo's are called Nilotics then ?  

The enigma of Luos being called Nilotics is out of the Europeans who attributed the term Nilotics is because of their living closely to the banks of River Nile in the Egyptian Sudan when they met or came incontact with them in the course of the exploration , navigation of the River Nile towards the south . So , these Europeans called the Luos and all the rest of the Blacks in nakename as the Nilotics which has remained till todate .

The origin of Luos or Luo : they are actually the descendants of Makuria People who inturn are the descendants of the Nuba People or  the Nubians or somtimes called the Anuba People , who first settled around the Mountain they named Mt. Nuba after the rebellion that took place in Egypt during the Pharao's period of Pharao Couple , Tut – Ank – Amon and Queen Nefertiti .

True , the Nubians or the Nuba / Anuba People and together with the Ladoans fought to liberate themselves from , in Egypt as the Black Peoples of the Ancient Egypt during the Political upheaval that took place then during the Rule Period of the last Pharao Couple , Tut – Ank – Amon and Queen Nefertiti as much is reported in the History Lines of the Ancient Egypt already .

The Nuba or the Anuba people , infact , in the rebellion , had fought side by side with the Lado People to liberate themselves in Egypt . After the war they moved southwards and immediately to the South of Egypt ,  they occupied the empty Territories they found and became the Inhabitants thereby , creating their first Kingdom they called the Nuba / or Anuba and later as the - Nobatia Kingdom in the Middle River Nile Valley . It is the same Kingdom which was and is the same Territory Lands which constitutes the actual today's North and South Sudan Lands or what was or has been called the Independent United Republic State of Sudan which once again has now been divided or spilted into the two Independent States recently in 2011 forming the North Sudan State Country and South Sudan State Country .

Infact , the Ottomans together with the Europeans had earlier conquered the Nuba Kingdom totally by 1841 and  later changed the name to be known or called as the Egyptian Sudan Territory from  1820 – 1841 in the Middle Nile Valley , whereby the Khedive or Lord of Egypt , Isma'il of Egypt became the first Governor – General for about one year , from November 1820 – 1821 .

In short to say then , The Egyptian Sudan was actually the former Nuba Kingdom which later got splited into three Kingdoms of : Nobatia , Makuria , Alodia Kingdoms . But Alodia would not last long as the Kingdom joined Makuria and thereby becoming One and forming the South end of the Egyptian Sudan Boundary to that of the Kingdom of Lado which was always different from the three Kingdoms mentioned above  - Nobatia , Makuria and Alodia .

But , for Lado , after the conquest of Lado Kingdom , the Ottomans took Lado seperalety as a different Territory Entity and gave to it the name Equatoria in 1871 . The Ottoman Arabs first attacked Lado People in 1854 to start with , thus opening the war which dragged on until 1869 when the Ottoman Khedive of Egypt , Supreme - Commander ordered Major General Sir Samuel White Baker who was in the Ottoman Army and under the Command of the Khedive to attack and take over Lado .

In  1871 , Lado fell under the Ottoman Rule then and becoming a special Province of Egypt and never was or had become a part of Egyptian Sudan .

With the new Names established and given to the conquered African Black Kingdoms of former Nuba , Makuria and Alodia Kingdoms together as Egyptian Sudan and former Lado Kingdom as Equatoria or Lado – Equatoria Province of Egypt  , the two diferrent Kingdoms became then the distinct Political Nation States or Entities under the Ottoman Empire and continued to be governed or administered with different seperate Governor – Generals nominated by the Khedive of the Ottoman Imperial Sovereign Power over them .

In the course of running the Political Administration Affairs of these two Kingdoms , the Khedive of Egypt in 1877 was obliged and made to compromise in leaving Egyptian Sudan to the European Vanguards – Tyrannical Gladiator like Beings who helped and had fought side by side with the Ottoman Soldiers or Army in taking the African Lands and bringing the different African People under the Ottoman Rule .

The ceding of Egyptian Sudan to the European - Tyrannical Gladiator like Beings or the Vanguards was also as a result of the obligations to and in honouring the Treaty Agreements of the Turco Egyptian firman of 13 February 1841 and the Turco – Egyptian firman of 1 April 1869 signed by the Europeans , Ottomans and the Americans of the United States of America , USA . At the same time and as a reciprocal gesture from the Europeans and the Americans to the Ottomans , the Euro –  Americans accepted the Khedive Isma'il's decline to cede Lado  or Lado – Equatoria Province of Egypt then to the European Administrations and making Lado – Equatoria to be under him and therefore directly under the Sovereign Power of the Ottomans only .

This is how the Khedive got Lado , and nominated the British National Major General , Sir Samuel White Baker as the Governor – General for him as he could not move to settle in Lado . Sir Samuel Baker was the favoured Governor – General to become , because , he was a very close friend of the Khedive of the Ottoman Empire and was serving him in the Ottoman military Army and was ordered by the Khedive to command the military attack on Lado . From this military practise done ,  it's here that , Sir Samuel White Baker became promoted to the Military rank of Major General in the Ottoman Army and his Salary of course was being paid by the Ottoman Authority then .

You can get more informations about the Luo People in my Book written : LADO THE OCCUPIED TERRITORY THE HEART OF AFRICA 

Writer :  Okuonzi 

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