Wadelai was a boma at a narrow point on the Albert Nile in what is now northern Uganda. There were several shortlived colonial stations there, the first being the final chief station of Emin Pasha when Governor of Equatoria. Wadelai gives its name to a current Ugandan sub-county.
Wadelai was a boma at a narrow point on the Albert Nile in what is now northern Uganda. There were several shortlived colonial stations there, the first being the final chief station of Emin Pasha when Governor of Equatoria. Wadelai gives its name to a current Ugandan sub-county.
==History== Wadelai lay about in a straight line north-northwest of Entebbe, and by river downstream from Butiaba (on Lake Albert), just north of Lake Rubi, a swampy broad of papyrus and ambatch. The local Ragem were a Jonam branch of the Alur people, who migrated northwest under pressure from the Lango. The Ragem were first visited by Europeans in 1875, an expedition from Dufile sent by Gordon of Khartoum and led by Lieutenant William Harold Chippindall of the Royal Engineers, nephew of Edward Chippindall. In 1876 Romolo Gessi, exploring Lake Albert in the service of Gordon, named the Ragem area "Wadelai" after its chieftain, a vassal of Kabarega, king of Bunyoro. The chieftain's personal name was Fishwa or Pico; "Wadelai" (also "Wadlay", "Wat-el-Lai", Wo' Lei, or Walad Lāy) was a patronymic ("son of Lai") bestowed by the Sudanese. The region was annexed to the Egyptian Sudan and a site near Wadelai's village chosen as a government post. This post was on the western bank of the Nile, downstream (north) of the later British station.
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