Everything about The Shilluk totally explained
The
Shilluk prefer to be known as
Chollo, rather than the more widely known term, Shilluk, and their language as
dhok-Chollo, dhok being the
Chollo word for mouth. The
Chollo are a major
Nilotic ethnic group of southern
Sudan, living on both banks of the river
Nile, in the vicinity of the city of
Malakal. The most extensive Chollo area is located on the western bank of the Nile north from Malakal. Before the
second Sudanese civil war the Chollo also lived in a number of settlements on the northern bank of the
Sobat river, close to where the Sobat joins the Nile, with
Dolieb Hill as an important mission station.
The Shilluk are the third largest minority ethnic group of South Sudan, after the
Dinka and their neighbors the
Nuer. They are led by a king
reth who is considered divine, and traces his lineage back to the
culture hero Nyikang, and whose health is believed to affect that of the nation; Formerly, their society was fairly hierarchical, with castes of royals, nobles, commoners, and slaves. Like most Nilotic groups,
cattle-raising formed a large part of their economy; however,
agriculture and
fishing were more significant than usual, and most were sedentary. Most
Chollo have converted to
Christianity, while some still follow the traditional religion, and small numbers have converted to Islam. Due to colonial policies which divided
Chollo areas into spheres of influence for different missionary denominations, the
Chollo are divided between
Catholic and
Protestant churches; the Catholic church was historically assigned the western bank of the Nile and ran missions stations at
Lul,
Detwoc, Tonga and
Yoynyang, while the
American Inland Mission ran a mission station at
Dolieb Hill, located to the south of Malakal on the eastern side of the Nile, but situated on the Sobat river. The Shilluk stayed on the sidelines for most of the
Second Sudanese Civil War, but were engulfed in fighting during 2004, although Shilluk intellectual, Dr.
Lam Akol, sided with both the
SPLA and the Government of Sudan at different times during the war.
Their language, the
Shilluk language (or
dhok-Chollo), belongs to the
Luo branch of the
Western Nilotic subfamily of
Nilo-Saharan.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Shilluk'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://shilluk.totallyexplained.com">Shilluk Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
