Anuak also known equally the Anyuak, Agnwak together with Anywaa, are riparian or riverine, agro-pastoralist, together with Nilotic ethnic grouping of the Luo cluster inhabiting parts of East Africa. They are primarily works life inward villages situated along the banks together with rivers of southeastern South Sudan equally good equally southwestern Ethiopia, especially the Gambela Region.

Anyuak people from Gambella area, Ethiopia. julio garcia

The people telephone band themselves Anywaa; others especially their neighbours exactly know them equally Anyuak. The cite ‘Anyuak’ or ‘Anuak’ or ‘Anywaa (Anywaae)’ literally agency ‘I shared’ or ‘to share’. The Anuak are a distinct people who remove hold e'er had closed ties to their environment. As an indigenous population, they remove hold been marginalised past times the authorities for many years. They sustain themselves mainly through farming, hunting together with fishing, piece approximately Anuak are also pastoralists. Some Anuaks are aureate miners together with atomic set out 26 technologists.

Anuak girl, Gambella,Ethiopia

They part a like linguistic communication beginning alongside their neighboring Nilotic peoples such as, Acholi inward Uganda, Joluo inward Kenya, Tanzania, together with Congo; equally good equally Jor Chul, Paari, Shilluk together with Pajulu inward South Sudan. Most of Anywaae are Christians, although approximately traditionally believed inward almighty spirit known equally ‘Jwok’. The total population of Anywaa worldwide is estimated to live on 350,000.

Anyuak people, Gambella, Ethiopia. julio garcia

In the early on 2003 together with 2004 the Anuaks were targeted for repression, majority rape together with killings past times The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Defense Front together with highland Ethiopian civilians, for daring to resist the authorities endeavour to remove handgrip of their bonafide traditional lands. Historically, the lighter-skinned Ethiopian tribes remove hold shunned the darker-skinned African tribes, together with sometimes raided the tribes to larn slaves. The Anuak are 1 such dark-skinned African people indigenous to regions of the lower Nile, others including the Nuer, Dinka, together with Shilluk. All these tribes are racially distinct from the olive-skinned Ethiopian tribes such equally the Tigray, the Oromo, together with the Amhara.

Anyuak homo smoking pipe.julio garcia

The Anuak’s ancestral homeland of Gambella is non entirely geographically remote from the working capital alphabetic lineament of Addis Ababa – it is also agriculturally fertile, relatively sparsely populated, together with blessed alongside aureate together with fossil oil reserves. This has made their province much coveted past times the key authorities for economical evolution together with population resettlement. “Gambella is potentially a real rich area,” said Gebre-Ab. “It could live on the tummy of Ethiopia.

Displaced Anuak people inward Ethiopia. julio garcia

Throughout the 20th century, the Anuak Kingdom has been studied past times many Western anthropologists who remove hold lived amid the Anuak for long periods, including the famous British social anthropologist E.E. Evans-Pritchard. The Anuak remove hold been admired inward item past times anthropologists for their organization of dispute resolution, inward which all major arguments throughout the Kingdom are resolved past times opened upward give-and-take betwixt all the disputants inward front end of the King together with his cabinet which holds session every solar daytime inward Otallo, Sudan.

Anuak pastoralist, Gambella area,Ethiopia

Demography together with Geography
The riparian/ riverbank Anyuak people remove hold their villages built along the banks of v rivers: Openo, Alworo, Gilo, Akobo together with Oboth inward East Africa. The legacies of colonialism left Anywaa people divided into ii countries, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia together with Republic of South Sudan. Most of Anywaae are living inward the Southwestern of Ethiopia, Gambella Region, where equally minority of them live on inward Southern Sudan mainly inward Akobo together with Pochalla counties following to the edge of Gambella Region.

King Adongo is immediately struggling to apply his culture’s ancient organization to 1 of the
greatest crises the Anuak Kingdom has faced inward its history.
“Before taking upward arms nosotros desire to notice a democratic way,” he said. “A way of
reconciliation. We don’t desire to aggress anybody. We desire to remove hold peace talks with
person who aggresses us. We desire to remove hold a coming together alongside the Ethiopian government
alongside the intervention of the basis community. There is no option unless people sit
down.”
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Akwai Agada Akwai Cham move 24th King of the Anyuak Kingdom

By Anyuak Media
Posted to the spider web on May 2, 2012

April 31, 2012 (POCHALLA) – On Apr 25, 2012 the Anyuak Kingdom crowned Akwai Agada Akwai Cham together with move 24th King of the Anyuak Kingdom. The ceremony took identify at Royal chemical compound inward Otalo hamlet inward Pochalla County of South Sudan’s Jonglei State.

King Akwai Agada Akwai Cham replaces his brother, King Adongo Agada Akwai Cham, who died inward Nov 2011 inward Nairobi. The entire Anyuak Kingdom was eagerly waiting for this ceremony to convey identify since Nov 2011.

The ceremony was witnessed past times hosts of dignitaries including ii representatives of U.S. Embassy inward South Sudan, approximately high ranking South Sudan authorities officials together with Anyuak who came all the way from Canada, USA, United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland together with Kenya.

Two U.S. Embassy representatives were welcome past times the community together with honored them past times slaughtering bulls together with they allow the U.S. Embassy representatives jump over the bulls.

The ii U.S. Embassy representatives presented iii gifts from the Embassy to King Akwai Agada Akwai Cham together with they thanked the Anyuak community for keeping their kingship alive, together with also they gave encouragement words together with give thank you lot the King for accepting the telephone band from Anyuak Community to come upward dorsum abode to Pb his people.

The ceremony was follow past times typical Anyuak traditional trip the lite fantastic (“buul”). At this stage of the ceremony everyone was welcome to bring together inward to demonstrate his/her best functioning to their partner.

The trip the lite fantastic has iii dissimilar stages: “Awawa” shows the girls inward a curved or direct business alongside the drum at the dorsum of the line, youth running jumping, dancing showing their best to the girls. The trip the lite fantastic leads into “Achanya”one of the stages of demonstrate off. Later the girls remove their partners together with they e'er move for the best performer. The grouping is thus mixed. This is “Okama”. The girls together with the youths sing to each other dear notes incorporated into the full general song.

King Akwai Agada Akwai Cham is a U.S. citizen together with South Sudanese past times birth. He uses to enjoying basis network communication inward the US. But from immediately on he volition live on off network for a while, because Pochalla County is 1 of the counties that don’t remove hold net-work communication, real remote, miserable infrastructures, lack of social amenities, no wellness facilities together with few NGOs activities.

Here are few pictures taken during the ceremony