Anywa

Anywa

people
also called  Anuak , also spelled  Anywak 

      a Luo-speaking riverine people two-thirds of whom live in southeastern Sudan (Nilot), the remainder in Ethiopia (Nilot). The Anywa are believed to have migrated from lands east of the African Great Lakes several centuries ago. They number about 100,000, and their language is classified as Nilo-Saharan (Nilo-Saharan languages).

      The Sudanese Anywa occupy high ground in savanna grasslands along riverbanks that are flooded annually; separate wet- and dry-season villages are maintained. The Ethiopian Anywa live in forested savannas and along streams in the highlands bordering The Sudan. Because more dry ground is available to the eastern (Ethiopian) Anywa—resulting in more closely connected villages—they have a wider political organization than that afforded by the autonomous villages of the western Anywa. Unlike most Nilotic peoples, the eastern Anywa keep no cattle; instead they fish, hunt, maintain gardens, and raise sheep and goats.

      Through the turbulent 19th and early 20th centuries, the Anywa fought with neighbouring Nuer and resisted colonial occupation. From 1930 the Anywa, represented by chiefs, have participated in the Sudanese administration. They were active participants, however, in the civil war (1955–72) to create an independent state for the southern Sudanese.

      Anywa clans (clan) are patrilineal. Lineage members live in the same village, but each village, of 200 to 2,000 people, comprises several unrelated clans. Eastern Anywa traditionally have had a royal clan and a king, while western village headmen have had autonomy. Most Anywa are monogamous.

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