Maba people

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Maba is an ethnic minority in Chad and Sudan. The population of this minority is at several 100,000. All of them belong to Islam. They are the most educated people in Chad compared to others. They are the first people in Chad to convert to Islam. They have one of the older kingdoms in Africa, which started in the 15th century. They speak Maba, a Nilo-Saharan language.

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