Southern Sudan's nation will be built around agriculture as much as oil

The Dinka (Christian) of southern Sudan are built around cattle.  They are the south's largest tribe, and like all cattleman, they fret primarily over their herds' access to water and grazing.  The Dinka will dominate any new southern Sudan state--yet to be named.  If the state happens, it'll be Africa's first new one since 1993 (Eritrea), but hardly its last.

The issue:  the lands of the Dinka are vast and fertile but flat.  When rain happens, it pools for months, creating a lot of marshes, mosquitoes, etc.

The fear:  without the north to hate anymore, the tribes might turn on each other over water.

Dinka ministers in Juba talk grandly of bringing in tractors and turning virgin land into a breadbasket.

The trick?  Dinka men despise such labor, preferring the traditional herding route.

Sounds to me like southern Sudan might soon be on the block for having a lot of its potential farm land leased to, and worked by, foreigners.