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The The Azande Society or The Azande People are an ethno-linguistic group indigenous to the Central African Triangle Countries The majority of them live in the, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in south-central and southwestern part of South Sudan, and in southeastern Central African Republic. The Congolese Azande live in Orientale Province, specifically along the Uele River; Isiro, Dungu, Kisangani and Ndoromo. The Central African Azande live in the districts of Rafaï, Bangasu and Obo. The Azande of South Sudan live in Central, Western Equatoria and Western Bahr al-Ghazal States, Yei, Maridi, Yambio, Tombura, Deim Zubeir, Wau Town and Momoi.

History
According to the Azande oral literatures passed on from generation to generations until present, the first Azande arrived in the Azandeland area starting in the mid-2nd millennium BCE through mass Bantus north & eastbound immigration movement and they started to settled permanently in the area we call today The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Central African Republic and Republic of South Sudan (Equatoria). The Azande settlement seem to have spread eastbound, but the Sudanese raids halted some of northbound expansion in the 19th century. The settler’s inhabitant area of origin is unknown, but historians claimed the Azande might have immigrated north and/or eastbound from Southern/West African belt or simply might have been the original natives of the land. In the 15th century A.D, the Azande sub-clan of Avungara ruled over the Bandia and the two groups formed what is known to us today as, “The Azande People”. The Azande lives in the savannas climate in the Azandeland formerly known to us as Mbomuland of which is known today as: The Northwest Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Southeast Central African Republic and Western Equatoria of South Sudan.

The Azande Kingdom
In the 15th century A.D, the Azande sub-clan of Avungara ruled over the Bandia and the two groups formed what is known to us today as, “The Azande People”. The Azande lives in the savannas climate in the Azandeland formerly known to us as Mbomuland of which is known today as: The Northwest Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Southeast Central African Republic and Western Equatoria of South Sudan. King Gbudwe ruled western part of Equatoria (within Leopold II Congo Free State or Lado Enclave) at the time as a king of the Azande Kingdom despised the Arab culture and their way of life. He encouraged the Azande tribe to resist the invaders with aimed to protect the Azande African Cultural Heritage and the African lifestyle. The European and Arab invader seem to have met with such stiff resistances from other Equatorian tribes such as: The Bari, Lokoya, Pari, Otuho and many other Equatorian tribes. Due to King Gbudwe resistance to the European and Arab invasion of Africa in the 1800’s, he fought vicious civil wars with his brothers after the death of his father Bazingbii and after consolidating his power, he went on to win several battles against the British, Arabs and the French invaders.

Colonial era
In 1910, following the Belgian annexation of the Congo Free State as the Belgian Congo in 1908 and after the death of the Belgian King in December 1909, the British authority officially reclaimed the former part of the Azandeland kingdom which fall in, The Republic of South Sudan “Equatoria” together with Lado Enclave as per the Anglo-Congolese treaty signed in 1894 and added the territory into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Equatoria was renamed back as, (Equatoria), the 8th province of Egypt and was administer by British.

Art
Art was well developed in the Azande culture. Pottery, articles crafted from iron (such as axes, bows and spears), wooden staff and carvings and parts clad in sheets of copper were routinely produced. A notable artform of the Azande Society, where the male ancestors were represent in their female incarnations of the ancestral kings

Notable Azande people

 * King Gbudwe
 * Prince Tomburo
 * Prince Mopoi
 * Prince Ndoromo
 * Prince Izo
 * Prince Gangura
 * Prince Bazungua
 * Prince Diko
 * Eng. Joseph James Tombura Politician President of High Executive Council of Southern Sudan and First Governor (1983) of Equatoria
 * Barnaba Kisanga Toroyo, Politician The I Commissioner of Western Equatoria Province
 * Abukkuku Soro, Politian The II Commissioner of Western Equatoria Province
 * Philip Nvue, Politician The IV Commissioner of Western Equatoria Province
 * James Bazia, Politician The V Commissioner of Western Equatoria Province
 * Dominic Kassiano MaJ. General Sudan Army & The VI Commissioner of Western Equatoria Province
 * Raphael Zamoi Politician The VII Commissioner of Western Equatoria Province
 * Dominic Dabi Monango,Maj. General Sudan Army & The VII Commissioner of Western Equatoria Province
 * Isaah Paul Ezikia Maj. General Sudan Army
 * Alison Monani Magaya Maj. General Sudan Army & Governor of Equatoria
 * Ayub Philip Gaza Maj. General Sudan Army
 * Stanly Mazinda Maj. General Sudan Police Services
 * Severino Moris Maj. General Western Equatoria State Police Services
 * Charles Babiro Gbiamisi Politician/Anthropologies
 * Dr. Samson Wasara Lecturer/Anthropologies
 * Bullen Nginzo Writer/Author