ABSTRACT
The peoples of this group are numerically small and have, in the past, suffered heavily from the slave-trade, Egyptian occupation, Zande invasions, famine, and epidemics. Evans-Pritchard writes: “ The tribes of the Bahr-el-Ghazal present the appearance of a routed army. They have been scattered over the Nile-Uelle Divide and in this dispersion numerous tribal units, often consisting of only a few families, have been cut off from the main body and swept permanently out of touch with men of their own language and blood. Some peoples have disappeared altogether as political and cultural units and survived only in tradition.” 1
Some of these people, because they have come under Zande influence, have already been mentioned in Part I (pp. 26-40). The only coherent information available on the social life of these peoples relates to the Bviri section of the Belanda; an account of mystical beliefs of the Ndogo and Golo is referred to below (p. 100).
