People or land · West Africa: the Sudan and Guinea · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Guera hills

The granite hills of the Guera, south of Lake Fitri, sheltered many small hill peoples (the later Hadjerai: Kenga, Dangaleat, Migami and others), each village under its own heads and spirit cults.

They are known only from later ethnography; nothing is recorded for 1200.

Who holds it

Title
village heads and rain priests (margai cults in later ethnography)
Confidence
low

Overlord

None recorded

How things stand that morning

Self-governing hill peoples.

Customs

Village heads, hill shrines and spirit priests (later ethnography).

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Later ethnography only.

On the map: Rough outline.

Sources and studies

  1. UNESCO General History of Africa III, ch. 15 (D. Lange and B. W. Barkindo, The Chad region as a crossroads), pp. 315, 460, 471, 477-478: al-Muhallabi, al-Idrisi and Ibn Said on Kanem, Manan, Njimi, Kawar; royal marriages with the Tomaghra, Kay and Tubu

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.