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Peace gives hope in land of cattle and guns |
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Written by Jeevan Vasagar
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Monday, 29 November 2004 |
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Three teenage girls, their arms around each other's waists, stand perspiring in the bright Sudanese sun as a gaggle of boys gather round them. The boys, brawny youths wearing checked shawls knotted over one shoulder, start hollering at the girls, pumping their hands in the air like hip-hop MCs. "I have a beautiful bull!" one shouts. "I know how to dance!" another cries, as the girls listen with their eyes demurely downcast. Then both sexes join dozens of other dancers in the dusty clearing as the place erupts into a melee of wild shimmying to a deafening soundtrack of whistles and insistent drums. Other boys circle around the mass of waving arms and legs, proudly leading their finest bulls. The animals' long, curling horns are decorated with elaborate tassels
Continue story @ http://www.guardian.co.uk/christmasappeal2004/story/0,15523,1361875,00.html
Source: Guardian Unlimited
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