New Social Movements in the African Diaspora pp 313-323 | Cite as
New Social Movements in Nubian Identity Among Nubians in Egypt, Sudan, and the United States
Abstract
Nubia is the general name of the area in the Nile valley south of Aswan in Egypt at the first cataract on the Nile, extending into the northern Sudan to the third or fourth cataracts. Its dominant ethnic group, the Nubians, also occupy the southern portion of Egypt up to the first cataract at Aswan and elsewhere as a result of their migrations and resettlement following the dam construction. This is the land of the ancient kingdoms of Kush and the various small ancient states such as Yam and Irtet. English colonialists, besides exploiting the rich lands of the Nile for cotton production, removed prized examples of Nubian cultural heritage to the British Museum and permitted other institutions, such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, to do the same.
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