The Mundari - Cattle of Kings


  • Photographer
    Tariq Zaidi
  • Prize
    1st Place / Editorial/Other_ED
  • Date of Photograph
    2016

Tariq Zaidi has spent the last 10 years photographing tribal and indigenous people in over 30 countries in Africa. He has just returned from South Sudan, where he photographed the little-documented Mundari tribe. It is hard to overstate the importance of cattle to the Mundari people. Their animals are everything - wealth, status, sustenance and dowry - and they guard them with their lives. They farm a breed of cattle called Ankole-Watusi – a distinctive white animal with curved horns, also known as ‘the cattle of kings’. With a single cow or bull worth up to $500, “Their cows are the most important thing in their lives,” says Zaidi. “And they will protect them at all costs.”

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