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After three failed marriages by the age of twenty-seven, Ager Gum left her Dinka community to start a new life in the urban town of Rumbek, the capital of Lakes State, central South Sudan, and the former capital of the country. While she was in Rumbek, she started composing songs about unsuccessful marriages in her community. The themes of her ...
The Dinka people (Dinka: Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ) are a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan.The Dinka mostly live along the Nile, from Mangalla-Bor [1] to Renk, in the region of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile (two out of three provinces that were formerly part of southern Sudan), and the Abyei Area of the Ngok Dinka in South Sudan.
John Frog was born and raised in Turalei Payam in Warrap State of South Sudan to Mr. Michael Mahok Maming and Mrs. Akuel Manyiel Akok. Both of John Frog's parents hail from Twic Mayardit County of Warrap State where His Excellency, Salva Kiir Mayardit is from. He speaks his native language Dinka, Juba Arabic, English and some Kiswahili.
The Sudan Armed Forces sought to exploit traditional tensions between the Toposa and the Dinka people, to whom many of the SPLA leaders belonged, by supplying arms and ammunition to the Toposa. [2] The firearms were used both to protect and increase wealth in animals, and became a symbol of wealth in themselves.
The Dinka Malual, also known as the Dinka Aweil, or Malual Tueng (Dinka: malual tueŋ), or just Malualjeernyang (Dinka: Malualgiɛrnyaŋ) are the largest subgroup of the Dinka people. They reside primarily in the Northern Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan , particularly around Aweil .
Gordon Koang is a blind South Sudanese musician based in Australia. He is known in South Sudan as the country's "King of Music". [1] [2] Koang was already an internationally touring musician and a household name in his own country when he was forced to flee South Sudan for Uganda and then Australia. Since then, he has played and produced music ...
Ngok Lual Yak as a group is an original Jieng Group. The Jieng began with the single family of Deng with his wife Abuk. One myth tells that Deng after his mythical death turned out to be an unreasonable phenomena, thus deriving the Jieng to worship Deng as commonly known today as Dengdit.
In Kenya, Marc Nikkel also co-founded Kakuma Refugee Camp with Bishop Nathanael Garang of Bor Diocese, South Sudan. There at Kakuma, Marc Nikkel named the young Dinka survivors "the Lost Boys." Marc Nikkel was diagnosed with cancer in 1998, and died in California on September 3, 2000.