Seru

The Sere are a small people of the Western Bahr el Ghazal region in South Sudan, speaking an Ubangian tongue of the Sere-Ndogo group; their old country, called Ndedegumbva, lay between the Boku and Kere rivers. Their oral traditions are dominated by the Azande conquests, for the Azande were welded into a conquering power by the Vungara and Bandia dynasties in the first half of the 1700s.

The Zande king Ikpiro overran the Sere, burning their hill refuges and killing or enslaving much of the population. Many stayed as Zande subjects, while refugees fled north and settled by the Pongo river.

Later wars with the chief Karamalla split the community, some following the Zande king Tombura and others Karamalla, leaving the Sere scattered under outside rule.