Hadendoa
The Hadendoa ( Hadendowa ) are an ethnic group in north-eastern Sudan, in the south of Egypt (see also Gebel - Elba National Park ) and in the north of Eritrea. They are a subgroup of the Beja and their language is the dialect of Hadendoa Bedawi.
The Hadendoa were known as warlike.
Designation
The name Hadendoa ( Haɖanɖiwa ) is of haɖa (lion) and ( n ) ɖiwa (clan ) come. " Fuzzi Wuzzi " is one of the English occupiers at the time of the Mahdi uprising (1881-1899) coined term for the Hadendoa that stood up in the 1970s in the German -speaking area of a warlike tribe in the area of Sudan. The Hadendoa were probably called because of their striking hairstyle so. The word is likely to point out the long, curly hair and coiffed with butter, which can not be excluded that ghazi, the Arabic word for "warrior", spoofing of the English fuzzy.
History
The Beja supported the Mahdi in the war against the British. Beja are divided into several tribes. One of them are the Hadendoa, nomads who live in the Sudanese Red Sea coast. They had a large cavalry and infantry armed troops. The slave traders and uprising leader Osman Digna was a Hadendoa. Many of them had enjoyed a good military training in the Egyptian army.
Others
In the English -speaking world the fuzzy Wuzzis by Rudyard Kipling's poem about the Mahdi uprising became known. In a popular British nursery rhyme they occur today. Also in the British sitcom Dad's Army told one of the main characters of his adventures as a " soldier in the fuzzy Wuzzis ". During World War II Australians called the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea with a similar hairstyle that supported their army, fuzzy Wuzzi Angels.