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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.
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His spirits can cause most Dinka women, and some men, to scream. The term Jok refers to a group of ancestral spirits. In the Lotuko mythology, the chief God is called Ajok. He is generally seen as kind and benevolent, but can be angered. He once reportedly answered a woman's prayer for the resurrection of her son.
Mathiang Yak Anek was a 19th-century female Dinka chief and escaped slave. Born in the 1860s, she was enslaved as a child by Turkish-Egyptian traders. She escaped during the advance of British colonial troops and returned to her home in Pathiong Gok (now part of South Sudan).
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The Murle (like the Dinka and Nuer) have a tradition in which men can only marry when they pay a dowry of several dozens of cows. Because of the poverty in the area, the easiest way to secure a bride is to steal cows from other tribes. Historically the youth of the Murle, Dinka and Nuer seem to have equally raided each other for cattle dowries.
Dinka may also refer to: Dinka language, a group of languages spoken by the Dinka people Dinka alphabet, the alphabet in which the Dinka language is written; Dinka (grape), a Hungarian wine grape; Dinka (DJ), a Swiss DJ; Dinka or Dinkan, fictional comics character and central deity of the parody Indian religion Dinkamatham or Dinkoism