Fur

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The Fur are hoe-cultivators living in village communities concentrated along the slopes of the Jebel Marra massif in the south-central Darfur region of Sudan. Hereditary sultans ruled the former Fur Sultanate that, at its greatest extent during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, encompassed over fifty culturally and linguistically distinct ethnic groups. The root causes of Darfur’s civil war—that during the worst violence in 2003-2004 left some 200,000 civilians dead and millions homeless—can be traced back to issues of land tenure and inter-ethnic relations during the sultanate.

Identifier

Region

• Africa

Subregion

• Eastern Africa

Subsistence Type

• intensive agriculturalists

Samples

• EA
• SCCS

Countries

• Sudan