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Dinka

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Dinka village on the Nile River in the southern Sudan.
(credit: Henriette Grindat)
Cattle-herding people of the Nile basin in southern Sudan. They speak an eastern Sudanic language of the Nilo-Saharan family and are closely related to the Nuer. Numbering about four million, they are divided into independent groups of 1,000–30,000 persons. Leadership is provided by priest-chiefs. In recent years they have been involved in civil war. See also Nilot.



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The Dinkas have always been a neglected people, fishermen along the Upper Nile, and they were Animists, not Muslim.
Sudan needs attention by Huxford-Westall, Susan / Anglican Journal
Dinkas have a thirst for learning, and he was such a diligent student that when he later enrolled at Tacoma's Henry Foss High School he was able to step right into the 11th grade and handle a schedule that includes geometry, biology, literature, computer training, and world geography.
I once was lost but now I'm found; the Lost Boys of Sudan wandered ... by Conklin, Paul / U.S. Catholic
The food shortage is evident in northern Bahr el Ghazal where SPLA supporters are under attack from three sides - Nuers from the east, Arab militias from the north, and Dinkas aligned with the government from the southwest.
FEEDING THE HUNGRY : AGENCY BOOSTS RELIEF DROPS TO SOUTH SUDAN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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