Gift exchanges with Sudanese tribes often collapsed into violent conflict
Evidence
But such exchanges were themselves fraught with many levels of meaning and interpretation, as the expedition learned when they approached the territory of the White Nile where the Kik tribe lived. … But the exchange deteriorated when the tribe shortly thereafter mobi- lized to fight the soldiers, who quickly killed a number of them — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 201
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- A Sudanese private trader conquered Darfur and became a regional governor (similarity 0.83)
- Egyptian rule made Sudan the first interior African region to feel Western colonial tensions. (similarity 0.79)
- Some Sudanese tribes and traders profited from the Turkïya despite denouncing it (similarity 0.78)