Beja people
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The Beja people or the Bejas are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Eastern Desert, inhabiting a coastal area from southeastern Egypt through eastern Sudan and into northwestern Eritrea. They are d
Beja men dancing
The fourth century Ezana Stone commemorates a Kingdom of Aksum foray into Beja territory and Meroe.
Beni-Amer woman with her daughter, Kassala state, Sudan.
Geographical distribution of Afroasiatic languages. Beja speakers comprise the northernmost cyan zone, separated from the other Cushitic languages by Ethiosemitic speakers.
Osman Digna
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Osman Digna was a follower of Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi, in Sudan, who became his best known military commander during the Mahdist War. He was claimed to be a descendant from the Abbas
Osman Digna in old age
Emir Mahmoud, a Mahdist leader, as prisoner after the Battle of Atbara, photograph by Francis Gregson, 1898