Literature about the Nuba

Since the beginning of the 19th century the unique cultures of the Nuba tribes have been described by many outsiders. First by explorers and travellers, then by officials, researchers and scientists and of course by photographers and journalists.

Because the Nuba never saw themselves as Nuba, it wasn't befor the 1970's, when a larger group of young Nuba went to university, that they became aware of their common identity. Political struggle and civil war left little room for scholarly interests and thus so far a lot has been written about the Nuba, but very little by the Nuba.

Since the 2002 cease fire in the Nuba Mountains, many new publications have seen the light, I listed some of them.

chronological list of titles
Year Author Title
2007 Ende, N. op 't Proud to be Nuba
ISBN 978-90-78233-02-2. Code X, Tilburg
2006 Manger, Leif Ole Understanding the ethnic situation in the NubaMountains in the Sudan. How to handle processes of groups-making, meaning production and metaphorization in a situation of post-conflict reconstruction?
IUAES, the 1st International Colloquium of the Commission on Ethnic Relations (COER), Florence
2006 De Waal, Alex

Averting genocide in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan
Social Science Research Council
http://howgenocidesend.ssrc.org/de_Waal12/printable.html
2006 Komey, Guma Kunda

Articulating autochthonous identities in claiming traditional land rights in the Sudan: an ethnographic case study from the Nuba Mountains after the CPA,
Workshop: After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement/CPA: Signs of Change? Bremen University, Bremen
2005 Komey, Guma Kunda

Regional disparity in national development of the Sudan and its impact on nation-building: with reference to the peripheral region of the Nuba Mountains
PhD Thesis, University of Khartoum, Khartoum
2004 El-Imam, Abdalla El-Tom, and Egemi, Omer

Addressing land questions in the NubaMountains: capitalizing on previous experiences
UNDP, Khartoum
2004 Komey, Guma Kunda

Dynamics of the marginalization process in Sudan: the Nuba Mountains case
In: Hassan A. Abdel Ati (ed.), The Sudan: challenges of peace and redressing marginalization (EDGE for consultancy & research, Khartoum), 54-87.

2004 SPLM

Governance workshop: Nuba land strategy
SPLM Land Office, Lwere-Kauda.

2003 Harragin, Simon

Nuba Mountains land and natural resources study, part 1 – land study
USAID in collaboration with the University of Missouri
2003 Manger, Leif Ole Perspectives on land tenure and related issues in the NubaMountains: a desk study for the NubaMountains Program Advancing Conflict Transformation (NMPACT)
UNDP, Khartoum
2001 De Wit, Paul V.

Legality and legitimacy: a study on access to land, pasture and water
 FAO: IGAD Partner Working Group, Rome
2001 Rahhal, S.M. (ed.) The Right to be Nuba. The Story of a Sudanese People's struggle for Survival
ISBN 1-56902-137-6. The Red Sea Press, Inc., Asmara
1999 Suliman, Mohamed

The Nuba Mountains of Sudan: resource access, violent conflict, and identity
In: Daniel Buckles (ed.), Cultivating peace: conflict and collaboration in natural resource management (International Development Research Centre, Ottawa), 205-220.
1999 Suliman, Mohamed Land alienation and genocide in the Nuba Mountains
In: Cultural Survival Quarterly: world report on the rights of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities 22, 4, 36-38.
1999
 Rodger, G. Village of the Nubas
ISBN 0-7148-3840-3. Phaidon Press Ltd., London
1998 Ibrahim, Hamid El-Bashir

Development failure and environmental collapse: Re-understanding the background to the present civil war in the Nuba Mountains, 1985-1998
IAAS and FES Symposium on perspectives on tribal conflicts in Sudan, University of Khartoum, Khartoum

1998
 Sonbol, A. (ed.) The Last Khedive of Egypt. Memoirs of Abbas Hilmi II
ISBN 0-86372-208-3. Garnet Publishing Ltd. Reading
1997
 Nyaba, P.A. The Politics of Libaration in South Sudan. An Insider's View.
ISBN 9970-02-102-8. Fountain Publishers, Kampala.
1995
 African Rights Facing Genocide: the Nuba of Sudan
ISBN 1-899-477-04-7. African Rights, London
1995
 Deng. F.M. War of Visions. Conflict of Identities in the Sudan.
ISBN 0-8157-1793-8. The Booking Institution, Washington, D.C.
1993

Daly, M.W. and
Sikainga, A.A.(eds.)

 Civil War in the Sudan.
ISBN 1-85043-515-4. British Academic Press, London.
1989
 Faris, J.C. Southeast Nuba Social Relations
 Monographica 7, Alano Verlag, Edition Herodot, Aachen
1988 Ibrahim, Hamid El-Bashir Agricultural development policy, ethnicity and socio-political change in the NubaMountains, Sudan, PhD Thesis, University of Connecticut, Storrs
1987
 Bauman, G. National Integration and Local Integrity. The Miri of the Nuba Mountains in the Sudan
ISBN 0-19-823401-5. Clarendon Press, Oxford
1987 Kramer, Fritz W.

The social organization of time amongthe Krongo of South Kordofan
Insitut für Ethnologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin

1985
 Dabitz, G. Geschichte der erforschung der Nuba-Berge.
ISBN 3-515-04444-2. Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, Stuttgart
1985
 Ibrahim, A.U.M.

The Dilemma of British Rule in the Nuba Mountains 1898 - 1947.
ISBN 0-086372-053-6. University of Khartoum.
1984
 Stevenson, R.C.

The Nuba People of Kordofan Province. An Ethnographic Survey.
Graduate College Publications, Monograph 7, University of Khartoum.
1984
 Husmann, R.

Transkulturation bei den Nuba. Ethnohistorischew Aspekte des kulturellen Wandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.
Göttingen.
1983
 Thelwall, R. and
Schadeberg, T.C.

The Linguistic Settlement of the Nuba Mountains.
In: Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika; Sugia (Hamburg) 5: 219 - 231
1982 Haraldsson, Ingemar

Nomadism and agriculture in the Southern Kordofan Porvince of Sudan
Institutionen for ekonomi och statictik, Uppsala
1982
 Salih, K.O.

The British Adminiastration in the Nuba Mountains Region of Sudan, 1900-1956
Unpublished Ph.D.-Thesis. London
1981
 Mowafi, R. Slavery, Slave Trade and Abolition Attempts in Egypt and the Sudan 1820 - 1882.
ISBN 91-24-31349-1. University of Lund, Sweden.
1980
 Iten, O. Die Nuba (Sudan).
In: W. Raunig (ed.). Schwarz-Afrikaner. Lebensraum und Weltbild (Inssbruck und Frankfurt am Main): 95 - 109.
1980
 Dubois, E. and Dubois, P.

Soudan Pays des Nouba.
ISBN 2-88001-088-8. Edita S.A., Lausanne
1979
 Iten, O. Economic Pressure on Traditional Society. A case Study of Southeastern Nuba Economy in the Modern Sudan.
Bern - Frankfurt am Main - Las Vegas
1977
 Scolz, P. Die Konsequenzen der islamisierung in Kordofan. Bemerkungen und Beobachtungen zum Religiösen Wandel.
In: Africana Marburgensia (Marburg) 10, 1: 51 - 66.
1976
 Riefenstahl, L. Die Nuba von Kau.
München.
1975
 Sontag, S.

Facinating Fascism.
In: The New York review of Books (New York) 22, 1: 23 - 30.
1974
 Toniolo, E. and Hill, R. (eds.) The Opening of the Nile Basin.
ISBN 0-903983-29-X. C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., London.
1973
 Riefenstahl, L. Die Nuba. Menschen wie von einem anderen Stern.
München.
1972
 Roden, D. Down-Migration in the Moro Hills of Southern Kordofan
In: Sudan Notes and Records 53: 79 - 99.
1972
 Fais, J.C. Nuba Personal Art.
ISBN 0-7156-0594-1. Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., London.
1969
 Sweeney, R.C.H. Jebels by Moonlight.
Chatto & Windus Ltd., London.
1968
 Beshir, M.O. The Southern Sudan. Background to Conflict.
Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., New York.
1966
 Luz, O. and Luz, H. Proud Primitives, the Nuba People.
In: The National Geographic Magazine (Washington D.C.) 130, 5: 672 - 699
1965
 Stevenson, R.C.

The Nuba Peoples of Kordofan Province: an Ethnographic Survey.
Unpublished M.Sc.-Thesis. University of Khartoum.
1964
 Stevenson, R.C.

Linguistic research in the Nuba Mountains - II.
In: Sudan Notes and Records 45: 79 - 102.
1963
 Stevenson, R.C. Some Aspects of the Spread of Islam in the Nuba Mountains.
In: Sudan Notes and Records 44: 9 - 20.
1963
 Stevenson, R.C.

Linguistic research in the Nuba Mountains - I.
In: Sudan Notes and Records 43: 118 - 130.
1961
1962
 The Republic of Sudan First Population Census of Sudan 1955/1956.
Final Report. Vol. I - III. Khartoum
1961
 Hassan, G. el. Land Use Problems in the Nuba Mountains.
In: Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of the Sudan - Surveying Conference 1960 - 12./13. Jan. 1961 (khartoum): 47 - 57.
1955
 Rodger, G. Le Village des Noubas.
Robert Delpire, Paris.
1953
 Henderson, K.D.D. The Making of the Modern Sudan. The Life and Letters of Sir Douglas Newbold.
Faber and Faber Ltd., London.
1951
 Strachan, R. With the Nuba Hillmen of Kordofan.
In: The National Geographic Magazine (Washington D.C.) 99, 2: 249 - 278.
1947
 Nadel, S.F. The Nuba. An Antropological Study of the Hill Tribes in Kordofan.
Oxford Universoty Press, London - New York - Toronto.
1940
 Stevenson, R.C. The Nyamang of the Nuba Mountains of Kordofan.
In: Sudan Notes and Records 23: 75 - 98.
1939
 Corkill, N.L.

The Kambala and Other Seasonal Festivals of the Kadugli and Miri Nuba.
In: Sudan Notes and Records 22: 205 - 219.
1938
 Bell, G.W. Nuba Agricultural Methods and Believes.
In: Sudan Notes and records 21: 237 - 249.
1932
 Seligman, C.G. and Seligman, B.Z. Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan.
London.
1932
 Hawkesworth, D. The Nuba Proper of Southern Kordofan.
In: Sudan Notes and records 15: 159 - 199.
1931
 MacDiarmid, P.A. and
MacDiarmid, D.N.		 The Languages of the Nuba Mountains.
In: Sudan Notes and records 14: 149 - 162.
1931
 Gillan, J.A.

Some Aspects of the Nuba Administration.
Sudan Government Memoranda No. 1. Khartoum.
1922
 Sagar, J.W. Notes on the History, Religion and Customs of the Nuba.
In: Sudan Notes and records 5: 137 - 156.
1922
 Yunis, N.E. Notes on the Baggara and Nuba of Western Kordofan.
In: Sudan Notes and records 5: 200 - 207.
1915
 Werner, F. Eine Reise durch das Gebiet der Nuba-Neger (Sudan).
Vorträge des Vereins zur Verbreitung naturwissenschaftlicher Kentnisse in Wien.
55. Jg., Heft 10, Wien.
1912
 MacMichael, H.A. The Tribes of Northern and Central Korodofan.
Frank Cass & C0. Ltd., London
1911
 Reinisch, L.

Die Sprachliche Stellung des Nuba.
Wien

1911
 Seligman, B.Z.

Note on the Language of the Nubas of Southern Kordofan.
In: Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen 1, 3: 167 - 188.
1910
 Seligman, C.G.

The Physical Characterrs of the Nuba of Kordofan.
In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Gr. Britain and Ireland 40: 505 - 524.
1908
 Anderson, R.G.G. Medical Practices and Superstitioons Amongst the People of Kordofan.
3rd. Report, Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories (London): 281 - 322 .
1883
 Henriot, L. Über die Sitten und religiösen Gebräuche der Nuba.
In: Jahresbericht (Köln) 30: 45 - 54.
1878
 Comboni, D. Quelques Mots sur l'Histoire Politique et Religieuse des Noubas.
In: Les Missions Catholiques (Lyon) 10: 15 - 16.
1875
 Bonomi, L. Relazione sul Gebel Nuba.
In: Annali 12: 28 - 41.
1874
 Carcereri, St.

LÉsplorazione del Gebel Nuba - El Obeid: 13 Novembre 1873.
In: Annali 8: 3 - 30.
1843
 Pallme, I. Beschreibung von Kordofan.
Stuttgart und Tübingen.
1842
 Pallme, I. Die Nubaneger.
In: Das ausland (Stuttgart und Tübingen) 15. Jg.: Nr. 140 und 141
1841
 Tutschek, K. Ueber die Galla, mit Rücksicht auf Tumale, Darfur und Dar Denka.
In: Gelehrte Anzeigen der k. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften (München) 12: 441 - 466
1841-1849
Russegger, J. Reisen in Europa, Asien und Afrika, unternommen in den Jahren 1835 bis 1841.
4 Bände und 1 Atlas. Stuttgart
1840
 Ritter, C. Über die Heimath einiger Negerknaben.
In: Monatsberichte über die Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin 1: 21 - 23
1839
 Holroyd, A.T. Notes on a Journey to Kordofan, in 1837 - 37
In: The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London 9: 163 - 191
1829
 Rüppell, E. Reisen in Nubien, Kordofan und dem peträischen Arabien.
Frankfurt am Main.
1819
 Burckhardt, J.L. Travels in Nubia.
London
1799
 Browne, W.G. Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798.
London.
1790
 Bruce of Kinnaird, J. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1772 and 1773.
5 volumes. Edinburgh and London.

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