Ethnic Groups in South Sudan - Nilotic Peoples, Madi People, Toposa People, Dinka People, Kuku People, Bari People, Moru People, Luo Peoples, Acholi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Nilotic peoples, Madi people, Toposa people, Dinka people, Kuku people, Bari people, Moru people, Luo peoples, Acholi people, Anuak people, Baggara Arabs, Nuer people, Murle people, Zande people, Didinga people, Nyangatom people, Mandari people, D r Fertit, Kakwa people, Kara people, Pari people, Avukaya people, Morokodo people, Lango people, Shita people, Shatt people, Ketebo people, Makaraka people, Yulu people, Tenet people, Keliko people, Dongotona people, Kaligi people, Nyamusa people, Lotuko people, Baka people, Bai people, Kichepo people, Mundu people, Atwot people, Burun people, Ndogo people, Mangaya people, Rek people, Ngulgule people, Olu'bo people, Indri people, Belanda Bor people, Tacho people, Bviri people, Lokoja people, Thuri people. Excerpt: The Ma'di people are found in the Magwi County in South Sudan, and the districts of Adjumani and Moyo in Uganda. From south to north, the area runs from the from Nimule(at Sudan-Uganda border) to Nyolo River where the Ma'di mingle with Acholi, Bari and Lolubo. From the east to west, it runs from Parajok/Magwi to Uganda across the River Nile. The speakers refer to themselves and are known Madi. In standard orthography this is Ma'di; the aprostrophe indicates that d is implosive. The speakers refer to their language as madi ti, literally meaning Ma'di mouth. Among themselves, Ma'di refer to each other as belonging to a suru ("clan" or "tribe"), which may further be broken down to pa, "the descendants of," which in some cases overlap with suru. While a Madi can only marry someone from outside their clan, they must normally marry within the group that shares the Madi language. Many neighboring speakers of Moru-Madi languages go by the name of Madi. Madi womenAccording to one popular folk tale, the name Madi came as an answer to a question by a white man to a...