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the animals are all chased away by guns.”
Deng believes that the values people receive within their own cultural context serve to provide a framework for how they relate to society. “Every aspect of Dinka life has meaning. The goals of our society are clearly spelled out. There is no ambiguity of what is right and wrong.”
Deng states that the hierarchy of the tribe, the family groupings, the expectations of the children of a chief, the rituals and customs all provide a structure to life.
“The Dinka folktales portray the moral dichotomy between the proper way of Dinka living and the potential for outside influences to move us away from our values,” he said.
Aside from the joys he remembers as a child through storytelling, Francis Deng’s life in the tribe was both challenging and rewarding. “My father had several villages, several wives and he was the symbol which united everyone.
The traditional Dinka rituals such as the scarring of the forehead and the extraction of teeth as a symbol of passing into manhood were not adhered to by Deng’s father,
“Other villages considered it was degrading and unattractive not to have these rituals done. My father would not put his children through this. Because my father was a poineer in education and his position respected in the Dinka culture, his views were accepted.”
At the age of five, Deng walked or rode a donkey to school in the adminis
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