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DARFUR
Former
Independent Sultanate in
Western Sudan
In prehistoric
times, the peoples of what is now
Darfur
were related to those of the Nile Valley
(including EGYPT), whose caravans probably
reached the region by 2500 B.C.E. According
to tradition, the regions first rulers were
the Daju. By around 900 C.E., Christianity
had spread to the area; by the thirteenth
century, however, the region had fallen
under the domination of the powerful Islamic
empire of Kanem-Bornu to the west, and the
TUNJUR replaced the Daju as the ruling elite
of the region.
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