Adongo Agada Cham
King of the Anuak people
About Adongo Agada Cham
Lived 1959 – 2011 (aged 51–52).
King Adongo Agada Akwai Cham (January 1, 1959 – November 30, 2011) was King of the approx. 96,000 Anuak people of South Sudan and the corresponding Western Ethiopian border region. He is the 23rd King of the Anuak Nyiudola Royal Dynasty and was considered by some of the Anuak to be a demigod.
Former teacher in Sudan and factory-worker in Canada, he succeeded his father who was king for almost 60 years. Cham had been living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada as a refugee from Sudan's civil war when he was called back to Sudan to take the throne in 2001. He ruled from the village of Otalo where he had constructed the kingdom's first school, clinic and airstrip.
Adongo Agada Cham died on November 30, 2011 at a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Who was Adongo Agada Cham?
King of the Anuak people (1959–2011)
When was Adongo Agada Cham born?
Adongo Agada Cham was born in 1959.
When did Adongo Agada Cham die?
Adongo Agada Cham died on 30 November 2011.
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