Washington Atwitter Over Rare Nubian Sightings

BILLINGSGATE JOURNAL (Dateline Washington)

BULLETIN: Washingtonians are atwitter over the sightings of rare Nappy-Headed Nubians in the White House area. The specie; crispus capillus nubius, are indigenous to the northern Sudan and southern Egypt, and did not inhabit North America when discovered by Columbus. A related specie that is more commonly seen in the Washington area, the Dreadlock-Headed Nubian, exhorresco obfirmo nubio, also came from Africa and has very dark feathers and usually is seen with hooped earrings and braided or extended feathers.

Ornithologists from the Smithsonian Institute trace the Nappy-Headed specie back to Nubia, the homeland of Africa's earliest black civilization with a history which can be traced from 2000 B.C. onward. In antiquity, Nubia was a land of great natural wealth, of gold mines, ebony ivory and incense which was alway prized by her neighbors. With a history which can be traced to the dawn of civilization, the Nubians first settled along the banks of the Nile from Aswan. Along this graet river they developed one of the oldest and greatest civilizations in Africa.

The Nappy-Headed Nubians and the Dreadlock-Headed Nubians conquered each other many times in their history. But with the influx of Arabs to Egypt and Sudan, there was a suppression of the Nubian identity following the collapse of the last Nubian kingdom in 1900. A major part of the modern Nubian population were totally arabized and were converts to Islam. The unique characteristics of the Nappy-Headed Nubian are their feathers, strut and ability to mimic music by rapping.

The Nubians that heve been sighted in the Washington White House area appear to have these same characteristics and are adored by both the denizens and media who fall all over themselves when they see them strut their stuff.