Ngura
Zande · mortal · Zande traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Ngura is remembered as the great expanding monarch of the Avongara, a descendant of the clan's founder Basanginonga who, several generations after the dynasty's origin, consolidated Zande political order. Tradition credits him with the system of a single paramount served by appointed princes and governors, the framework under which the Zande kingdoms spread eastward across the Nile-Congo divide. His figure stands at the threshold between the legendary origin of the ruling clan and the documented history of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Zande kingdoms.
Domains
- kingship and dynasty
Powers
- founds the order of prince and paramount
Sources
- Ngura, a descendant of Basanginonga, is remembered as the dynamic Avongara monarch under whom the Zande kingdom expanded and who instituted rule by a single paramount aided by appointed princes.: E. E. Evans-Pritchard, The Azande: History and Political Institutions (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971). (primary); 'Azande', kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com, summarising the Avongara dynastic tradition. (secondary)