Boys in the village of Nawayapure have a midday football (soccer) game using small stones for goal posts and canvas bag filled with plastic rubbish for a football.
Villagers are of the Jie (also spelled "Gie") tribe living near Iti in the remote SE corner of Southern Sudan. These people used to live near Kasangor mountain, some fifty km. south of here, but were forced to move during the war and now refuse to return. They are primarily farmers (fields of millet were ripening nearby) but also have cattle. A few of the women in the village had gotten into the liquor distilling business, buying sugar in Iti village, fermenting in discarded oil drums over a fire, and cooling the distillate through a copper coil. Most of the distillers appeared to be quite drunk. Their language and architecture is extremely similar to the Toposa people.
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- Copyright
- ©2010 George Steinmetz
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- Contained in galleries
- South Sudan
