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'Borgu' was a country in Africa, partitioned between the Great Britain and France by the Anglo-French Convention of 1898. It lies in what is now Nigeria and the Republic of Benin.
People of Borgu were known as Bariba and Borgawa. The most western country where people from Borgu (Dar Borgu) were reported in the first half of the 19th century was Walqayt in northwestern Ethiopia (Mansfield Parkyns, Life in Abyssinia: Being Notes Collected During Three Years’ Residence and Travels in That Country, London 1853, p. 350). Their descendants, today speaking Tigrinnya, are now called Tsellim Bet ('House of the Black'), mixed with other groups of central African origin.