Guek Ngundeng

Guek Ngundeng (1890 – 1929) was a Nuer people's prophet and spiritual leader proclaimed seizure by the spirit of Deng (sky God) divinity and a son of the Nuer people's prophet Ngundeng Bong. He was known to the Angelo-Egyptian colonial government in Sudan as a witch doctor.

In 1929, the Anglo-Egyptian colonial government in Sudan dispatched police and military operations under the Nuer district commissioner Percy Coriat to what was known as the "Nuer Settlement" in Upper Nile province. The event proceeded with the machinations of young Nuer prophet Guek Ngundeng, known to the colonial administration as a witch doctor, the son of the Nuer prophet Ngundeng Bong.

Biography Guek Ngundeng was believed to have been born in 1890 in Wech Deng village, Nyirol County of Lou Nuer territory today part of Jonglei State, South Sudan. His father Ngundeng Bong, a Nuer prophet, was from Lou Nuer and his mother Nyaduong Duoth hailed from Eastern Jikany Nuer. After the demise of Prophet Ngundeng in 1906, Ngundeng's followers believed that Deng's divinity would possess Ngundeng's elder son Reath to carry on his father's work. Still, his little brother Guek happened to be the one who proclaimed seizure by his father's spirit of Deng divinity.

Following Guek's fallout with the colonial government, Dok Dieng, the Lou Nuer chief contacted the government several times in 1927 in an effort for reconciliation. In his first letter, he urged Coriat to sit down with Guek again about the road project, but Coriat refused. He then visited Coriat in Abwong where he presented an elephant tusk to Coriat as a gift from Guek and appealed that Guek had no intention to fight the government. The third time, he took a delegation with him including Guek's little brother Bol to Abwong, Coriat assured them that he didn't appreciate Guek's conduct so he told Dok Dieng that they would meet in a few days to settle the road project matter and all the Lou chiefs and Guek must be presence and to ensure that the meeting happens, he held Guek's little brother in detention.