ABSTRACT
According to Santandrea, the Nilotic section of the Belanda, the Bor, admit a broad division into two sections: the Jo-ku-nam, the people of the river,.and the Jo-Ugot, the people of the hilI to the north of them. Their nicknames originated from the fact that the former used to live on the banks of the river Sueh, while the others lived on the rocky hills of the neighbourhood.(2)
There seems to be an important distinction at pres~t between the two halves of the Bor, and this is explained by Evans-Pritchard in terms of their history. M.J.W. mentions the ruling tribes, the Fujiga aild KarmmJ3) He states that the Fujiga can speak the Jo Luo dialect and have some cultural features in common with them. There are traditions among the people themselves that they originally split off from the Jo Luo and joined the Bor, who were living in the hilI region to the west of the Sueh. Here they gained ascendancy and graf ted themselves on to the people as an aristocracy; it was this Fujiga aristocracy which organised resistance to the Zande invasion and finally led the Bor northwards across t.he Ba river. (1) Nalder, A Tribal Survey 01 Mongalla Province, 1937, p.144. (2) Santandrea, Anthropos, 1942, p.233. (3) M.J. Wheatley, S.N.R., 1923, Vo1.VI. No.2, p.251.
