Nile Valley and Great Lakes peoples (Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Luo, Maasai, Kalenjin and related groups) speaking Nilotic languages; proto-Nilotic identity emerged in present-day South Sudan by the 3rd millennium BCE, with major southward migrations into the Sudd/South Sudan (5th-11th c. CE) and onward into the East African highlands and Rift Valley accelerating from the 13th century.
Not an ending: Nilotic peoples — Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Luo, Maasai, Kalenjin and kin — remain the majority of South Sudan and major nations of East Africa. The map hands off to the modern states of the region.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Nilotic peoples — the shape you scrub through changes in 3000 BC · 501 · 1101 · 1301 · 1851.
Ethnographic Survey of Africa volume on the Nilotic peoples' social and political organization prior to and during the colonial period.
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