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Many
Nubians brought to Uganda for military purposes eventually settled in towns and cities. They worked petty jobs, becoming manual labourers, house servants, taxi drivers, nightguards, mechanics, or provided other services to the wealthy and middle classes. Due to their subordinate economic status
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As a result of their connection with Emin Pasha's slave soldiers, the colonial military, and Amin's government, the
Nubians have been associated by other Ugandans as well as Europeans with violence. As a result, Nubians have become the target of discrimination and racist violence following the
105:, are a people who traditionally live in northern Uganda, and generally include those who identify as Nubians. In addition, the Nubian identity is also linked to ethnical, linguistical, cultural, and societal elements, but these do not apply to all Ugandan Nubians.
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and Muslim religious identity, they were generally looked down upon by the Bantu
Christians in the cities and constituted a bloc of the urban poor. Many were drawn to military and police service under Amin as it offered opportunities for economic advancement.
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by the
British and preferred as recruits for the British colonial army, many northern Ugandans adopted a Nubian identity when they intended to join the military. This trend continued after Uganda's independence, especially under the rule of President
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resented them as foreign mercenaries. According to expert Mark
Leopold, the Nubian identity was an "elective, strategic, and potential alternative ethnicity" for people from the West Nile region before 1979. Even Amin's British advisor
148:. Nubian men have traditionally practised ritual scarring, with three parallel facial marks being seen as Nubian symbol. This marker probably descends from the brands given to some Sudanese slaves during the 19th century.
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Experts such as Paul Nugent have argued that the
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in northern Sudan. Despite the Nubian name, the earliest
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seized power in 1986. Some people of Nubian ancestry actively identify themselves with different ethnicities to avoid discrimination.
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