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How Kenya’s Nubian community became ‘stateless’
Members of Kibera’s Nubian community during a past demonstration in their push to be issued with land title deeds like other Kenyans. FILE
The legendary kingdom of Nubia (also referred to as the kingdom of Kush) was situated in what is today’s Northern Sudan, near the border with Egypt.
It is first mentioned around 3800BC by the Egyptians as a primitive outpost, a source of treasure, slaves, dancing girls and wrestlers. The Romans too regarded it as a “barbarian wasteland”.
