Bandala

See also: bandala

English

Noun

Bandala (plural Bandala)

  1. The slaves of the Rizeghat and Habbania Arabs and their descendants.
    • 1930, J.G.S. Macphail, “The Bandala Method of Hunting Elephant on Foot”, in Sudan Notes and Records, volumes 13-16, page 279:
      The Bandala of the Western Bahr el Ghazal have been described in an interesting article by Captain G. K. C. Hebbert in Volume VIII (1925) of Sudan Notes and Records.
    • 1989, Northeast African Studies - Volume 11, page 89:
      It was decided that all the Bandala should be settled with their ex-masters in Darfur.
    • 1989, New School for Social Research, Proceedings, page 86:
      Bandala were totally assimilated to the religious and cultural norms of their masters.
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