THE DINKA TRIBE OF SOUTH SUDAN.
Sudan is the largest country in Africa, to the south lies the Sudd, one of the planet’s most extensive swamplands. The Dinka live throughout these floodplains. Plagued by decades of civil war and tribal conflict, the day-to-day concerns of the tribe remains the same, their cattle. The Dinka clans, move from one cattle camp to the next, one of them is the PAYOK one of hundreds of clans who form the four million strong Dinka ethnic group, the largest in southern Sudan. The Dinka refer to themselves as the JIENG. A Dinka woman with facial scarring In Southern Sudan today, clashes over grazing territory and infighting has caused widespread displacements and grazing land is in constant dispute. But sometimes it is not war that brings change, but peace. Even in the remotest cattle camps, since Sudan’s reunification in 2005, international aid agencies and traders have escalated modern development. The world of the Dinka cattle camps is rapidly changing .Modern clothes brought...