South Sudan's Dinka people – in pictures

The boy was injured in a cow camp due to a fire. Dingka relies on cows for cultural expression rather than for economic reasons

The boy drinks milk from the milk chest. Dinka is the largest ethnic group in South Sudan and is known for its traditional agriculture and livestock industry.

In recent years, in countries where conflict occurred, cattle breeders Apuk (left) and Makar's manufacturers used weapons to protect their cows.

The man pulled a dead cow bitten by a scorpion. The rural life style of Dinkas is also reflected in their religious beliefs and customs. Cows occupy an important position in their ceremonies

As a boy repellent of mosquitoes, we used white ash when burning cattle dung. During the dry season, the herd is near the plain of the river - but during the rainy season it has moved to a hill to avoid the flood

14 year old Den does not go to school, as a cow raising chef, a chef, a sweeping person, and as a help of her brother. Dinka is made up of many independent but correlated clans

The 12-year-old Nhial Pandiar is milking with Mingkaman. The dry season is usually between December and May, during which the people of Dinka are approaching the waters of the Nile River.

Boys tend to keep cows early in the morning. Dinka set up a big camp near Nile to ensure that their animals are near pasture grasslands

The man is blowing a horn instrument made of horns. Dingka traditionally draws religious power from nature and the surrounding world, not from specific religious texts.

The pastorists gathered to pray for the church. Traditionally, cattle sacrifice is the central element of Dinka's religious activities.

The boy grasped the drum during the pray of the church. Past young people enter adulthood through traditional ritual ceremonies

The boy washed his hair with the urine of a cow. In adulthood these boys traditionally got the name of the second "bull" - it shows the importance of the cow for their cultural expression.

There is a boy among the cows of the camp. The various subgroups of Dingka are in South Sudan, with the largest population and about 1 million people living.

The boy takes pictures early in the morning. As the rainy season approached, Dinka moved to a settlement of cottages with mud and a thatched roof.

The man placed a rifle in their cow camp under the morning light. In the rainy season, the nomads move cattle from the river to the highlands, where they start harvesting crops such as sorghum.

Dinka lives in the vast area of ​​the southern Sudan and when the Nile River floods it forms a seasonal wetland. For the civil war, numerous Dinka people emigrated from the southern part of Sudan to Khartoum, Kenya, Uganda, Europe and the United States of the northern part of Sudan. Linguists classify Dinka as the main language family of African - language Nile language families. Dinka's vocabulary is diverse and can be used to explain their world. They are estimated to have over 400 cows alone - their diversity of movement, disease, and color and shape

According to the 2008 Sudan census, that number is about 4.5 million, accounting for about 18% of the country's population is South Sudan's largest ethnic group. When Dinka, or they claim, Muonyjang (singular) and jieng (plural) form the branches of the Nilotes River (mainly agriculture farmers who sit in the Nile Valley and the Great Lakes Region of Africa). And Luo). Dinka is sometimes known for his height. According to Rwanda Denzci, they are considered to be the highest in Africa. Roberts and Bainbridge have measured the average height of 52 Dinka Ageir and 181.3 cm (5 feet 11.4 inch) samples of 5 Degrees 11.9 inches in the 52 Dinka Ruweng sample measured in 1953 - 1954 We reported. But today's Dinka figures seem to be lower and may be the result of malnutrition and conflict.

The part occupied by Sudanese dinka is inland. It is surrounded by Arab meadows in the north, Nuer in the east, Fertit in the west, and various small peoples in the south. The influence of each group can be seen in the words, economic activities, culture of residents of Dinkaland. Dinkaran and Dinka have been under the modern Sudanese government since the political formation of the 1920s, and Sultan Muhammad Ali of the Ottoman Empire invade Sudan to search for slaves. However, the largest ethnic group in Sudan, Dinka, and many other ethnic groups in South Sudan still resist this regime. Therefore, Sudan is often referred to as a cultural, political and ecologically diverse region of the north-south.