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chieftain
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What difference does it make when it is said at an international court that Abyei Area belongs to the Nine Ngok Dinka Chieftaincies when it was already known at the traditional local courts that the Area belonged to them, given the history of their ancestors and how they became the best brothers and sisters to the nomadic Misseriya Arab tribe in that bridging territory between the North and South of the Sudan?
In the end they are usually the ones who are best positioned to write the biography of the nation's leader, and so the praise-singer at the Chief's court goes on ad infinitum, forward to the century of chieftaincies and feudal lords, in this age of technology and critical thinking.
Commenting on this new power development, Cobbing noted that without king "there would have been an inchoate collection of feuding chieftaincies.
 
 
 
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