There is No Jur Chol Tribe but Luo Tribe in Western Bahr el Ghazal State: Speaker
The Western Bahr el Ghazal State Legislative Assembly Speaker Andrea Mayar Acho has strongly denounced and warned those calling the ethic Luo tribe of Western Bahr el Ghazal state as Jur Chol. 27 April 2013 Western Bahr el Ghazal State Legislative Assembly Speaker Andrea Mayar Acho. [James Deng Dimo] By James Deng Dimo WAU, 26 April 2013 [Gurtong] - “Those people who are nicknaming us as Jur Chol must stop it, and should identify as by our main origin tribe which is Luo,” said Acho who is from Luo tribe. “The name Jur Chol only remains on us as a nickname which is imposed on us by Dinka and it is an acceptable to call the main tribe of Luo in the Country today,” he said. The issue of Jur Chol has been an issue which is facing Luo tribe and making it difficult when they are accessing their National IDs Card in South Sudan with the national ministry of interior within Wau and Juba. Many Luo tribes had been optioning to leave without processing their IDs when it happen that they are called Jur Chol but some said they are forced by the administration to accept the tribe name Jur Chol. Some Luo communities in the country had been throughout complaining that if other local tribes in the country failed to recognize them, then the government of South Sudan which is responsible for issuing the national documents should not behave like them. “We had been finding it difficult along our ways to get national IDs in the name of our tribe just like other tribes in the country,” he said. Luo in Africa continent are several ethno linguistically related ethic groups in Africa that inhabited an area ranging from South Sudan, Western Bahr el Ghazal state Wau with the presence of some in Western Kenya, Northern Uganda, Ethiopia, DRC Congo and in Mara region of Tanzania which similar spoken language known as Dholuo. Luo group include the Shilluk, Anuak, Acholi, Lango, Alur, Padhola, Joluo (Kenyan and Tanzanian Luo), Bor, and Kumam. The Jo-luo and their language Dholuo are also known as the "Luo proper", being eponymous of the larger group in Africa which current US president Barrack Obama and other leading political figures like Rally Odinga of Kenya and former Sudan Bishop Ireneu Dut Wein from Wau come from. The level of historical separation between these groups is estimated at about eight centuries. Dispersion from the Nilotic homeland in South Sudan of Western Bahr el Ghazal state was presumably triggered by the turmoil of the Muslim conquest of Sudan, and the migration of the individual groups over the last few centuries that included their historical grandfathers background can to some extent be traced in the respective tribes' oral history. Numbering between 100,000 to 900,000, the Jo-Luo are found in Wau, and Aweil districts. Their main settlement towns are Wau, Mapel, Udici, Alel, Thony, Barmayen, Kwajieno, Roc-Roc dong, Kangi, Kayongo, Atido and Umbili. Posted in: Home, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
