In Dinka Bor tradition, long ebony shafts serve as walking sticks for the elderly, as scepters for newly married women and as weapons for initiates into manhood. Wooden spears are vital to Dinka ...

JUBA, South Sudan, December 8 (UNHCR) - "I am here now because we have been attacked many times by other tribes. They stole our cattle, they stole our clothes - they even stole our kitchen utensils," ...

The genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan is the most recent violent episode in a country where a 20-year civil war has killed an estimated two million people and displaced more than four million.

Imagine a country where everyone is well over 6 feet? The Dinka tribes in South Sudan are the tallest people in the world, ...

Imagine a country where everyone is well over 6 feet? The tallest humans on earth are from South Sudan [Youtube/drewbinksy] The Dinka tribes in South Sudan are the tallest people in the world, with ...

Here I detail violence in South Sudan by first discussing a specific Dinka Agaar practice alongside existing discourses on the social aspects of violence and universal human rights, then I show how ...