The Dinka are a congeries of independent tribes in the valley of the White Nile. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
Not because of anything but because they were Dinka. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But he's an extremely tall person by Dinka standards. From Wordnik.com. [Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent] Reference
Dr. Seligman the following account of the Dinka "Osiris". From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
They rounded up the Dinka and Mandari in their thousands. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
He had not now to trouble himself about crossing the Dinka. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
However, when they reached the banks of the Dinka, just before. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
Speak with a local Nuer or Dinka and one finds a curious thing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Abyei is for the South and we are Dinka, as southerners, he said. From Wordnik.com. [Referendum Source of Tension in Sudan's Abeyi Region] Reference
And, you know, he's making a lot of money, but he is still a Dinka. From Wordnik.com. [Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent] Reference
It was evidently a detachment of horse advancing towards the Dinka. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
Like the Dinka, the Nuer peoples 'livelihoods revolve around cattle. From Wordnik.com. [John Prendergast: Field Dispatch: Jonglei, Southern Sudan] Reference
Two or three versts further the Dinka flowed across the Irkutsk road. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
The Dinka residents of Abyei whom we spoke to were clear about their views. From Wordnik.com. [George Clooney and John Prendergast: We can prevent the next Darfur] Reference
When he proposed to his Dinka wife, Atong, he gave her family 80 cows as a gift. From Wordnik.com. [Manute Bol, former Washington Bullet and one of NBA's tallest players, dies at 47] Reference
And the Mondari are accusing the neighboring Dinka tribes of stealing their cattle. From Wordnik.com. [Many In Southern Sudan Long For Independence] Reference
• D is for the Dinka tribe, which counts Sudan-born Luol Deng of Duke as a member. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Sizing up the draft from A to Z] Reference
Sudan under Jaafar Nimeiri, from the Dinka tribe that dominates politics in the south. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
VALENCIA: Deng believes being a member of Sudan's Dinka tribe makes him inherently giving. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2008] Reference
And he said that this is his responsibility, and "We Dinka tribe, we stay together," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent] Reference
They have as neighbours the Dinka to the north, the Madi to the south, and the Galla to the east. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The Dinka, Nuer, and Shiluk tribes coexist in the Sudd with tens of thousands of large herbivores. From Wordnik.com. [Saharan flooded grasslands] Reference
Born into the Dinka tribe in Sudan, Wek escaped the war-torn country with her family when she was 14. From Wordnik.com. [Black Beauty's New Face] Reference
Renewed fighting between ethnic groups has displaced tens of thousands of local Dinka from their homes. From Wordnik.com. [Kiir Says the North Has Not Made Unity Attractive to Southerners] Reference
Arab raiders from northern Sudan had enslaved thousands of southern Sudanese, particularly the Dinka people. From Wordnik.com. [1999] Reference
By way of background, my family is part of the Dinka tribe, which is the largest ethnic tribe in southern Sudan. From Wordnik.com. [Alek Wek: Finding Good in What Appears to be Hopelessness] Reference
An area about the size of Connecticut, Abyei is inhabited mostly by the Dinka, southern Sudan's largest ethnic group. From Wordnik.com. [George Clooney and John Prendergast: We can prevent the next Darfur] Reference
Bol, who like Deng is a Dinka, gave much of the money he earned in the NBA to help ease the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2008] Reference
Bol, a native of the Dinka tribe, said he has had some 250 family members "killed at the hands of Muslims" through the years. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Chuck Freeman: Manute Bol: NBA Star and Christian Philanthropist] Reference
We very soon learned that their hereditary enemies were the tribes that lived further to the south, the Dinka and the Mandari. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
Gor said that Messeria fighters burnt three Dinka villages to the ground during fighting last week that also killed 28 Messeria. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The Ngok Dinka supported the southern rebels of the SPLA during their decades-long civil war with the Sudanese government, while the. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
They had been cut off, as had been Michael, before being able even to reach the Dinka, and had been obliged to go back to Lake Baikal. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
SMITH: But while the Dinka tribesman from the Sudan blocked and dunked his way to basketball stardom, war and famine ravaged his homeland. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 29, 2006] Reference
There's this -- this old Dinka saying that the -- the thread that stitches the North and the South together goes through these oil fields. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009] Reference
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