Adio (ethnicity)

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Adio-Krieger, 1879, photographer: Richard Buchta

The Adio (also Makaraka or Iddio ) are an ethnic group that lives mainly in what is now South Sudan .

The Adio live basically in all areas that are also inhabited by the Azande . The Adio were assimilated by the Azande and adopted the Azande language and traditions.

A group of Adio inhabit the state of Central Equatoria in South Sudan. They are the furthest east azandes and because they have become isolated from the rest of the azandes, they have mixed heavily with the surrounding ethnic groups. Under the Azande king Muduba, they took part in a further expansion of the Azande to the east. When Muduba died, his entourage returned west, the Adio stayed behind. The Austrian Africa explorer Richard Buchta lived for a while with the Adio near Lado in 1879 and photographed their members.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MAKARAKA in: Encyclopaedia Britannica , 11th Edition, Volume 17, 1911, p. 451
  2. ↑ Dr. Addis Ababa Othow Akongdit: Impact of Political Stability on Economic Development: Case of South Sudan , Verlag AuthorHouse, 2013, ISBN 9781491876459 , p. 100 [1]
  3. ^ A b Edward E. Evans-Pritchard : The Ethnic Composition of the Azande of Central Africa in: Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 31, No. 4 (Oct. 1958), pp. 95-118 [2]
  4. ↑ Christopher Morton (ed.), Darren Newbury (ed.): The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies , Bloomsbury Publishing , 2015, ISBN 9781472591265 , p. 43 [3]