Boulala
The Boulala Bilala or are a Muslim people who live around Lake Fitri , in the region of Batha , in central Chad. They were 136,629 in the last census of 1993. They speak a Nilo-Saharan language , divided into four dialects, very close to that of two of their neighbors, and Kuka Medogo. These three races make up the group and seem Lisi descent from the ancient inhabitants of the Sultanate of Yao.
They appear in the fourteenth century , near Lake Fitri as a nomadic clan led by descendants of the dynasty Sefouwa. Located east of the Kanem Empire , they break the power of the empire. Having driven from his capital Njimi and killed Mai (king) of Kanem Daoud (1377-1385), they force his successor Omar to migrate Bornu. The attack against the Kanem-Bornu by Idriss Alaoma a century later pushes east. They remain a threat to the Kanem-Bornu and revolted several times with the help of Tubu , eventually emigrating to the Bahr el Ghazal and Southern Getty.
They are expelled from the Bahr-el-Ghazal famine or by the arrival of Toundjour. Their leader Djil Essa Tubo then leads to the Fitri around 1530 and founded the Sultanate of Yao. In the late eighteenth century , the sultan Djourab el Kabir is defeated and killed by Barguimiens to Kabara. Fitri must recognize the suzerainty of Wadai. Twenty successive sultans to Yao since Djil Essa Tubo until the death of Oumar Mahamat Abba, in July 1967 and the advent of Hassan Absakin.
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