Ngara
Zande · mortal · Zande traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Ngara is remembered as the last paramount ruler of the Abakundo, the dynasty said to have held sway before the rise of the Avongara. In the Zande origin narrative he is challenged, defeated and bound by Basanginonga, whose victory ends the old order and gives the new ruling clan both its ascendancy and its name, Avongara, 'those who bound Ngara'.
Domains
- kingship and dynasty
Powers
- holds the old paramountcy
Relations
- enemy: BasanginongaDefeated and bound by Basanginonga.E. E. Evans-Pritchard, The Azande: History and Political Institutions (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971). (primary)
Sources
- Ngara was the last paramount of the Abakundo, defeated and bound by Basanginonga in the Avongara origin narrative; his name is preserved in the clan-name Avongara.: E. E. Evans-Pritchard, The Azande: History and Political Institutions (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), appendix on the origin of the Avongara. (primary)