Qualla: Warrap https://qualla.com/warrap-state en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/k/p/warrap-state-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Warrap https://qualla.com/warrap-state Warrap: Introduction https://qualla.com/warrap-state/ Photo credit Ernst Ulz, CC BY-SA 3.0. Three people born on this flat expanse of Bahr el Ghazal went on to become known across continents: a president, a 7-foot-7 basketball center, and one of the most photographed models of her generation. Warrap State, headquartered at Kuajok, covers 31,027 square kilometers of savanna, sorghum fields, and seasonal wetland between the disputed Abyei region to the north and Lakes State to the south. It is, in this sense, a rural place that keeps producing people the world ends up noticing.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/k/p/warrap-state-wp/s9kp-warrap-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Warrap: A Place Called Home https://qualla.com/warrap-state/ Photo credit Ernst Ulz, CC BY-SA 3.0. Warrap sits deep in the Bahr el Ghazal region, the broad western plain that drains toward the White Nile. To its east lies Unity State; to its west, Western Bahr el Ghazal and Northern Bahr el Ghazal; to its south, Lakes. The people are overwhelmingly Dinka - the Jieng, as they c...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/k/p/warrap-state-wp/s9kp-warrap-a-place-called-home.mp3 0:06 2 full Warrap: The Tall Man from Turalei https://qualla.com/warrap-state/ Photo credit Ernst Ulz, CC BY-SA 3.0. Manute Bol was born here in 1962 and grew to 7 feet 7 inches, making him the tallest player in NBA history alongside Gheorghe Mures,an. He played for the Washington Bullets, the Golden State Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Miami Heat in a ten-year career defined by impr...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/k/p/warrap-state-wp/s9kp-warrap-the-tall-man-from-turalei.mp3 0:06 3 full Warrap: President and Supermodel https://qualla.com/warrap-state/ Photo credit Ernst Ulz, CC BY-SA 3.0. Salva Kiir Mayardit, the first and current president of South Sudan, was also born in Warrap - in 1951, into a cattle-keeping Dinka family from Gogrial. The black cowboy hat he has worn in nearly every public appearance was a gift from U.S. President George W. Bush; Kiir wears it...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/k/p/warrap-state-wp/s9kp-warrap-president-and-supermodel.mp3 0:06 4 full Warrap: Six Counties, Many Renamings https://qualla.com/warrap-state/ Photo credit Ernst Ulz, CC BY-SA 3.0. Warrap comprises six counties: Tonj South, Tonj North, Tonj East, Gogrial East, Gogrial West, and Twic. The state itself was born of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ended the Second Sudanese Civil War. That agreement, signed between the Sudan People's Liberation Mov...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/k/p/warrap-state-wp/s9kp-warrap-six-counties-many-renamings.mp3 0:06 5 full Warrap: From the Air https://qualla.com/warrap-state/ Photo credit Ernst Ulz, CC BY-SA 3.0. Flying over Warrap at altitude you see a patchwork of cultivated compounds and wider savanna, cut by seasonal watercourses and the occasional dirt track. In the wet season the land goes green and the seasonal rivers run clear. In the dry months the grass browns and smoke rises in...

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