A short historical introduction The core of the ethnicity of Kanuri/Kanembu is a mixture of Nilotic and Chadic roots- Nilotic because the mother-clan, according to some serious research among academics in Sudan, the Magumi descended from the same strain as many ethnic groups in Africa from the Nile basin, most specifically from the ancient kingdom of Meroe and Makuria, and who lived along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan before they completely left the Nile region to settle in southern ancient Libya in Tou (Tibesti), or more specifically...