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==History==
Traditionally the home of the [[Lugbara people|Lugbara]],<ref>Middleton, p.11.</ref> [[Bari people|Bari]],<ref name=g79>Gleichen, p. 79.</ref> and [[Moru people]]s,<ref
[[Charles George Gordon]] succeeded Baker as Governor of Equatoria in 1874 and noting the unhealthy climate of Gondokoro, moved the administrative centre downstream to a spot he called [[Lado, South Sudan|Lado]],<ref>Middleton, pp. 169-170.</ref> laying the town out in the pattern of an Indian [[cantonment]], with short, wide and straight streets, and shady trees.<ref>Gray, p. 108.</ref> Gordon made the development of primary industry in Lado a priority, with the start of commercial farming of [[cotton]], [[sesame]] and [[Sorghum bicolor|durra]] and the introduction of livestock farming.<ref>Cohen, p. 1660.</ref> Although Gordon stationed over three hundred soldiers throughout the region<ref>Gleichen, p. 235.</ref> his efforts to consolidate British control over area were unsuccessful and when he resigned as Governor in 1876, only Lado and the few garrison settlements along the Nile could be considered administered.<ref>Flint, p. 143.</ref>
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