The Nyangwara, also known as the Yangwara, are a Nilotic ethnic group living in the state of Central Equatoria, South Sudan.
Tradition has it that the Yangwara like all the other Nilo-Hamite groups migrated to their present location from the area near Lake Turkana.
[citation needed] They must have been ferocious fighters, seeing as they managed to push the Pöjulu and the Moro to the south and west respectively.
Members of the group keep cattle, sheep and goats, and farm crops such as sorghum, millet, groundnuts, simsim, beans and cassava.
It is endowed with deep fertile soil and is dissected by a number of perennial streams that drain into the river Nile.
[citation needed] The parents play an advisory role in the affairs of their daughters only in cases of whether or not the suitor has sufficient assets for the dowry.
Like the other Bari-speaking peoples, the Yangwara are highly superstitious and they explain all kinds of misfortunes and disasters to spirits of the departed relatives.
[citation needed] These are expressed and transmitted orally in songs, music, dance, poetry, folklore and stories.
Among the Yangwara, the men have perfected the arts of making bee-hives, bow, arrows, spears, granaries of different size and shapes; snares and nets for trapping game.
Should a Sultan die, a senior sub-chief takes over immediately for a period of 2 to 3 months during which the royal family puts up a name of one of his children of the late chief for endorsement by the council of elders.
[citation needed] The Yangwara neighbour the Bari to the east and southeast; Mundari and Moro Kodo to north and northeast; the More to the northwest; the Pöjulu and the Kakwa to the south and southwest.
Many Yangwara people converted to Christianity and there is now an Episcopal Church of South Sudan Diocese of Rokon, St. Peter and catholic Parish.