MADI (A-MADI)

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MADI (A-MADI) , a negro race of the Nile valley, occupying both

banks

of the Bahr-el-

Jebel

JEBEL (plur. jibed)

immediately

north

of Albert

Nyanza

ancient
- ANCIENT
- ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)
_Bantu_.html">NYANZA (from the
ancient
- ANCIENT
- ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)
Bantu root word anza, a river or lake)

. Tradition makes them immigrants from the

north

-west. They are remarkable for the consideration shown to their

women

WOMEN

, who choose their own husbands, are never ill-treated or hard-worked, and take

part

PART

in tribal deliberations. The Madi build sepulchral monuments of an elaborate type, two huge narrow stones sloping towards each other with two smaller slabs covering the opening between them. They have been much harried by the Azandeh and Abarambo. They were visited by W.

Junker

JUNKER, WILHELM (1840-1892)

in 18821883, and described by him in Petermann's Mittheilungen for May 1883.

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