DINKA IS CLAIM AS LARGEST TRIBE IN AFRICA
- MAKOL MANYUAT TUT KOCDIT
- Apr 22, 2016
- 2 min read
mongst the Dinka's, which is the largest tribe in Africa A young man called Kadi and a girl called Nyankor. Kadi wants to buy Nyankor so she can be his first wife. But marriage in the Dinka world is expensive and complicated. The Dinka's are selling their daughters getting cows as payment. The women in South Sudan are the most expensive in the world. A girl can be sold for over 100 cows, each cow worth over $400, with the Sudanese average income of less than $2 per day. Women are an expensive and cherished commodity. But some Dinka's have over 100 wives. Each wife's has her own house, land and animals spread over a large area, her husband spends his life walking from one wife's homes to another in order to produce as many children, especially as many girls as possible. For months are bride to be Nyankor's family has been traveling from one cattle camp to another to negotiate the largest number of cows possible. Cows are their valuate, and the more cows one has the higher position a Dinka has in society. Dinka's are known as being the tallest and most elegant people in the world. They have their own ideas about beauty. Dinka women remove 6 of their front teeth so they can spit as far as possible, and decorate their face and body with scars and the ash from burnt out cowpats. In this short film we will be looking up at the Dinka culture not down. The Dinka do not have a written language, so history is passed on from generation to generation through story telling. This will be the style of the narration in this short film. We will follow a day in the life in this unique culture. "The Temptress" a David Kinsella production As film production was made in 2013. The Temptress (The Temptress) In our time of the world financial crisis, unemployment, worries, migration, people are in search of a new world, with a new and better life. In our western world, we are conditioned, "groomed" to believe in a life of "Happy ever after", but this can be so far from reality. We dare to believe in promises and hopes. We are seduced by commercialism. In the end, is life better?, we have been changed, we have lost our way and we can never return to our past. The dark side of reality must get the respect it deserves, there is no white without black, no happiness without understanding sadness. Our fable introduces us to the most handsome man in the world Ajang and the most beautiful women in the world, the temptress Achol. A journey from the mythical Dinka world in South Sudan to the dreams of happiness living a new life in Norway
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