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Pre-Korana lineage groups
We will now take a closer look at the genealogical data I collected in Korana, Hudimche and
Gharaza, which referred to pre-Korana lineage groups. According to Bulama Tada Zangav of
Hudimche (1995), before the expansion of the descendants of Vaghagaya, there were three
groups who once lived in this part of southern Dghweɗe:
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Margarha (Margarha is a reference to Margi)
Fte Kra (Fte means he refers to a place but 'Kra' is a reference to Zelidva)
Goze (they left for Gwoza Wakane)
Margarha is the only direct reference to Margi, but Kra is a common reference to a Dghweɗe
lineage which left for Zelidva, perhaps because the Vaghagaya were expanding, and
presumably this was also so for the 'Goze', who had left for Gwoza Wakane.
Bulama Tada Zangav did not seem very sure of his lineage descent. He only listed a few of
his ancestors before he stopped at Dghweɗe-Mbra. He used the expression 'hichiɓ hichiɓ in
tambaza', meaning 'broken to pieces', which is a reference to the tambaza plant for which we
have no translation. It means that the descent line becomes increasingly telescoped over time.
In the context of this, the memory of former groups who once settled before the Korana
lineages expanded might also have become rather vague and unreliable.
Concerning the earlier reference to 'Margarha', we will see in the next subsection that there is
a particular link between them and the Ɗagha of Kadzgwara, who have links to Mutube to the
southwest of Bama and are also known as the Margi Mulgwe (see Figure 4). There are also
migratory links with the previously mentioned Margi Gulak via Tur (Chapter 3.3), but we do
not have any more information on who those pre-Korana 'Margaha' might have been, and how
they came to be there in the first place.
Kwalika and its possible link to the Ɗagha of Kadzgwara descent
The majority of the lineages of Kwalika are also Mughuze-Ruwa, but are distinguished from
the Vaghagaya lineage. In Kwalika we found the Dugh Keme and Nagaladewe, both sons of
Mughuze, and also Ghadala, as Chika Khutsa (1995), our main source in Kwalika, explained.
He added that the Ghadala were also Mughuze-Ruwa. Next he listed the Kem Gula, and said
that they had been the original people of Kwalika. He explained that most of them left for
Zelidva, while some stayed in Kwalika but left for Gwoza later. He also listed other
descendants of Mughuze-Ruwa, and the settlement wards of Dghweɗe in which they could
still be found were as follows:
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Kwalika
Ghardimbe (Takweshe)
Vaghagaya (Korana, Hudimche, Gharaza)
Balngada (Ghaghagure)
Chika Khutsa mentioned Nagaladewe, Dugh Keme and Ghadala as being 'sons' of Mughuze,
but he was the only source to mention Ghadala. We assume that the latter are perhaps a
smaller lineage group, or even a lineage branch of Nagaladewe, but of course we cannot be
sure. We can only assume that the Nagaladwe-Mughuze, considering they were the major
lineage of Mughuze descendants in Kwalika, did not sacrifice at the Vaghagaya lineage shrine
in Korana. Unfortunately, we did not explore where the Nagaladwe-Mughuze of Kwalika
sacrificed in the past, or whether they had a lineage shrine (khalale) in Kwalika.
Kem Gula were also living in Kwalika as first comers, and they are not descendants of
Mughuze. According to our source, Kem Gula fought with his brother in Tur (Fitire), and as a
result left Tur for Kwalika. Most of them had allegedly left for Zelidva even before the
increase of Mughuze-Ruwa, and we infer here that the Vaghagaya were actually meant, since
they are the ones who increased the most. According to our Kwalika source, there were hardly
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