Wadai
or WADAY, formerly an extensive and powerful negro state in the central Sudan; between Kanem and Bagirmi in the W. and Darfur in the E.; area, 170,000 square miles; pop. estimated at 1,000,000. It consists principally of an elevated plateau, very fertile in some parts, producing abundantly maize, millet, indigo, cotton, etc. Ivory and slaves are also largely dealt in. The inin. The The inhabitants are warlike, and their sultan exercises tributary rights over several neighboring settlements. The prevailing religion is Mohammedan. Its sovereignty passed to France in 1903. Capital, Abeshr.