Tags: Ethnic Group.
Gumuz (also spelled Gumaz and Gumz) is an ethnic group living in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region and the Qwara woreda of Ethiopia as well as the Fazogli region of Sudan; they number about 200000. In the past they have been lumped with other peoples living along the Sudanese-Ethiopian border under the name of Shanqella (Pankhurst 1977). As Shanquella they are already mentioned by Scottish explorer James Bruce in his Travels to discover the source of the Nile published in 1790.
