Ethiopia-Lutherial-African Nuer Chief - Ethiopia Mouse Mat

He's named for his most favourite OX. Lutherial (translated) LUTH=a long bell RIAL=distribution of colours on Ox. The Ethiopian Nuer are cattle herder's, and. Ethiopia has been an independant nation since ancient times, being one of the oldest countries in the world. Ethiopia is the oldest independant country in Sub Saharan Africa, a region known as the Horn of Africa. The British saw Nuer land as the key to controlling the African continent. The secret of power lay in the Railway line ( the Cape of Cairo ) cutting right through Nuer Land and leading directly to Egypt The Nuer people were also slaughtered by the French,who fought with the British over Nuer land from 1896 to 1899.