3 most interesting lost African countries that have been forgotten

Equatoria

A  British explorer, Samuel Baker founded Equatoria in 1870 with the hopes of establishing trading posts. He was sent by Egyptian authorities to establish trading posts. The country which is preferably referred to as a province, was resistant to Arab influence when it became a province of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It covers part of modern-day South Sudan and Uganda.

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In the 1880s Muhammed Ahmad Abdullah declared himself the Mahdi to begin a jihad that will unite all tribes in Sudan. He included  Equatoria in the unification and the states survived peacefully until the British raided and took over from Egypt.

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