Wadelai
In Wadelai , today a village in northern Uganda on the upper reaches of the Nile (on the Albert Nile ), there was an important base of Emin Pasha .
Historical meaning
Wadelai was Emin Pasha's headquarters for a period until December 1888. In the following years the place was in the hands of the Mahdists . In 1894, Wadelai came into British possession under Major Roddy Owen and remained a (border) base for the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan for twelve years , the southern and western borders of which partly differed from those of what was later to become Sudan and today's southern Sudanese borders. The first European to visit Wadelai was Lieutenant H. Chippendall in 1875.
Wadelai bears the name of a local vassal of King Kabarega , the ruler of Unyoro at the time .
literature
- Iain Robertson Smith: The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1886-1890 . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1972, ISBN 0-19-821679-3 ( Oxford studies in African affairs ).
- Wadelai . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 28 : Vetch - Zymotic Diseases . London 1911, p. 228 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Coordinates: 2 ° 50 ' N , 31 ° 35' E
