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Songs of the Dinka of south Sudan = Diet ke Jieen ne Cueny Thudan

Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: Angela ImpeyPublication details: Angela Impey, 2012.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Contents:
1. The Dinka are great like the buffalo -- 2. Listen to my words! -- 3. The leader of the south was betrayed and killed by the Arabs -- 4. We who were once -- 5. We have to sacrifice cattle to free ourselves from hatred -- 6. Why do we kill one another and destroy the country over power? -- 7. To what shall we compare the heart of a black man? -- 8. Oh children of Mading Awiel, your hearts are fearless -- 9. The young men rebelled and took up arms -- 10. How could we be afraid when we have John Garang? -- 11. Dr John Garang wanted to govern Sudan -- 12. I ran into the cattle camp, singing like a drunken person -- 13. Akuol Mabioor Deng told me to wait for the people -- 14. Majok, shining like the evening star -- 15. The ground is trampled in the autumn -- 16. My Mabior is as white a city lights, Sudan is our land -- 17. When Manyiel forges a hoe, he never fails, My head is covered with ash -- 18. My bull, Maker, is as bright as the rainbow in autumn and makes me sing -- 19. Child, do not talk that way -- 20. I bought my bull Makuei.
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Sound Recordings Sound Recordings VWML Storage SCD 2129 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only SR07521

Compact disc.

Notes in English and Sudanese. The songs in this collection were recorded for a project entitled Metre and Melody in Dinka Speech and Song, conducted between 2009 and 2012 by researchers from the University of Edinburgh and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in collaboration with Dinka researchers in South Sudan.

1. The Dinka are great like the buffalo -- 2. Listen to my words! -- 3. The leader of the south was betrayed and killed by the Arabs -- 4. We who were once -- 5. We have to sacrifice cattle to free ourselves from hatred -- 6. Why do we kill one another and destroy the country over power? -- 7. To what shall we compare the heart of a black man? -- 8. Oh children of Mading Awiel, your hearts are fearless -- 9. The young men rebelled and took up arms -- 10. How could we be afraid when we have John Garang? -- 11. Dr John Garang wanted to govern Sudan -- 12. I ran into the cattle camp, singing like a drunken person -- 13. Akuol Mabioor Deng told me to wait for the people -- 14. Majok, shining like the evening star -- 15. The ground is trampled in the autumn -- 16. My Mabior is as white a city lights, Sudan is our land -- 17. When Manyiel forges a hoe, he never fails, My head is covered with ash -- 18. My bull, Maker, is as bright as the rainbow in autumn and makes me sing -- 19. Child, do not talk that way -- 20. I bought my bull Makuei.

2009-2012.

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