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AmaliaAyulDeng_songVisitingKingKwongo
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Kwongo became king after the demise of King Ayang Anay in 1992. King Kwongo built his house in Silki in Omdurman. The women of Takamol went to visit King Kwongo ...
MaryAwowAdyejak_songAnnounceTheMarriage
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. In this song, the composer is challenging a young man who wanted to marry a girl, but he could not do so because he had no cows at that time. So, the composer ...
MaryBodhiAkany_songKebDanceOfPapwojo
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Keb is a dance in which people dance without drum beats. But the person who leads the song must have a strong voice, sometimes the song is led by two people. This ...
MaryBodhiAkany_songFuneralSongForAbinykwec
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. It is a funeral song (Shilluk "ayaar") about Gwado Ayoker from Nyibodo village, which is part fo the Tonga district. Awook, Nyikwec and Abinykwec are his bull's ...
Shilluk_TongaDialect_June2014ToJuly2015_LexicographyInProgress
This submission contains lexicographic materials on Shilluk, in a table format, and recordings on which these lexicographic data are based. For each of over 530 lemmas, we provide a phonological transcription (field1), an ...
MaryBodhiAkany_songWomenOfNyibodo
The women of Nyibodo love their husbands very much because they are lacking nothing in their houses. When Nyikango quarrelled with Okwer son of Jiw, the ancestor of Kwawaang clan, they separated and Nyikango moved ahead ...
LuciaOywalAtitker_songGovernanceInSouthSudanParts1&2
The recordings at the center of this item are two Shilluk songs. When South Sudan got its independence, every South Sudanese became happy because that came after a very struggle. But before long, politicians began to fight ...
AmaliaAyulDeng_songTheBuffaloOfTakamol
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Shilluk people love one another and are united wherever they are found. During the war that started in 1983, many people left their homes and went to live in ...
GeorgeAgyethDaak_songTheBoatOfTheArab
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. A boat carrying army went from Malakal to Akorwa in Mwomo in July 1965, and took every good thing into the boat. Then the army burnt the shrine, and Akorwa Village. ...
MaryBodhiAkany_songFuneralSongForChiefAwaakjok
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk funeral song. Chief Awaakjok was the chief of Papwojo Village in Tonga District. Awaakjok was the chief during the first war (1955-1972), and he protected Papwojo during ...
GeorgeAgyethDaak_songAjyangAndAkic
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Ajyang and Akic were chiefs of Detwok. The army killed those two chiefs and burnt Detwok Village on 30 September 1964. The informants were Shilluks; they guided ...
MaryBodhiAkany_songNyibodoYouthSong
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. The young men of the village of Nyibodo, from the house of Awunkwey, were dancing with girls from Atigo, a nearby village. But the youth from the Amaylidh house ...
AmaliaAyulDeng_songFuneralSongForKingAyang
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. The King Ayang Anay had a house in Haj Yousif. So, when he went to the other side of the river [= died, BR] in 1992, the women of Takamol went for his funeral; ...
GeorgeAgyethDaak_songKingAyang
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. King Ayang Anay was elected king in 1974. He was young at the time, but he was married; and marriage qualified him to become king. But some villages delayed; they ...
