Mandara

Mandara, Mandala. a Negro people of East Sudan, conterminous on the north with the Shirs of the Bahr-el-Arab; appear to have come originally from Baghirmi, whence they migrated to escape from the slave-hunters from Lake Chad. At present nearly all are Mohammedans, and at the beginning of the late Mahdist revolt they took part with the Baggara Arabs and with the Nuers in their attacks on the Egyptian stations of the Equatorial Province.