In local oral traditions they appear as "white giants" who arrived in Darfur from somewhere in the north, which might be a hint to them originally being Berbers.
[3] The construction methods employed appear to be a local development, different from the architecture of the Chad and Nile region,[4] but still fundamentally African in character.
Rubble was used to fill the walls, making the structures extremely solid.
The wall could be divided or coupled to present two separate compounds, with two entrances opposite each other.
[1] The Tora architecture was adopted by the succeeding Daju kingdom and remained in use in modified form during the rule of the Tunjur and early Keira sultans, but had been replaced by new construction methods including fired bricks by c. 1700.