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Title: | The man called Deng Majok: a biography of power, polygyny, and change |
Author: | Deng, Francis Mading |
Year: | 1986 |
Pages: | 294 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | New Haven, Mass. |
Publisher: | Yale University Press |
ISBN: | 0300033850 |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | Dinka traditional rulers biographies (form) |
About person: | Deng Majok (1900-1969) |
Abstract: | The South-North dualism of the Sudan is bridged by Ngok Dinka, a Nilotic Southern people who occupy a strategic location on the border between the Dinka and other ethnic groups in the South and the Arabs in the North. Deng Majok, tenth in the traceable family line of Ngok paramount chiefs, who reigned from 1942 until his death in 1969, was the most pivotal in consolidating the image of the area as a microcosm of the Sudan and a symbol of national unity. He was a unique individual, largely because he adopted and integrated into his Dinka value system elements of Arab Islamic culture and the British colonial administrative code of conduct, creating a dynamic fusion of tradition and change in a way that distinguished him, at least in degree, from his forbears and contemporaries. This biography of Deng Majok has been written by his scholar-statesman son. |