Kawahla people


Kawahla is an ethnic group of Eastern Sudan. They are an Arabic ethnic group. They speak Sudanese Arabic and members of this ethnicity are SunniMuslims. There are over 40 million members worldwide, with over 2 million in Southern Egypt and 15 million in Morocco and Mauritania 15 million in KSA and Kuwait and about 15 million in Sudan. They were close neighbors with the Jumaiah and Nuba and thus their arab ancestors married from these two African ethnicities.
The Kawahla are known to be the descents from Al Zubair ibni Awam who migrated from the Mecca to Sudan over 1200 years ago. and has exactly 36 segments of the tribe. It is also the biggest tribe in Sudan with over 200 tribe chiefs.
Most of the Kawahla are farmers, and the main crops they grow are sorghum, wheat, cotton, beans and other fruits such as La loba and Nabag. Studies of the Kawahla in Kurdufan found that they migrate from the wet season pasture to grazing land near permanent wells to wait for the dry season. In the 19th century, Hedley Vicars encountered the Kawahla and, when they asked him to settle their dispute with other tribes. Lord Edward Gleichen also wrote about the Kawahla.