The Tobou, or Tubue (from old tobou, meaning "rock people", are an ethnic group inhabiting northern Chad, southern Libya , northeastern Niger and northwestern Sudan. They live either as herders and nomads or as farmers near oases . Their society is clan-based, with each clan having certain oases, pastures and wells.
The Toubou are generally divided into two closely related groups: the Teda (or Téda, Toda) and the Dazagra (or Dazaga, Dazagara, Daza). They are believed to share a common origin and speak two closely related languages called Tedaga (Téda Toubou) and Dazaga (Dazaga Gouran), both Nilo-Saharan languages. The Toubou people speak the Tobou languages , which are from the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
