Best Travel Guide To Lotuko Tribe/People Of South Sudan

Best Travel Guide To Lotuko Tribe/People Of South Sudan

Lotuxo, also spelled Lotuho, Lotuko, or Latuka, are people of South Sudan, living near Torit IN Eastern Equatoria State, who speak an Eastern Sudanic language of the Nilo-Saharan language family, the Otuho language. They grow millet, corn (maize), peanuts (groundnuts), and tobacco and raise herds of cattle.

Overview of the Lotuko People: 

The Lotuko of South Sudan, numbering 214,000, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are part of the Nilotic people cluster within the Sub-Saharan African affinity bloc. This people group is only found in South Sudan. Their primary language is Otuho. The primary religion practiced by the Lotuho is animism, a religious worldview that natural physical entities--including animals, plants, and even inanimate objects--possess a spiritual essence.

Demographics:

The Lotuko is bordered by the Lopit in the North, the Bari in the West, the Acholi and the Madi in the Southwest, and the Didinga and the Boya in the East. Their region is characterized by ranges and mountain spurs such as the Imotong mountain, the highest mountain in South Sudan with an altitude of 10,453 ft. above sea level.

Lotuko People Agriculture practices:

They engage in some subsistence agriculture; their main crops are sorghum, groundnuts, sim sim, and maize in the plains, sweet potatoes, and tobacco in the hills.

Land Practice among the Lotuko People:

The community owns Land, and by no single person but in trusts of the land. In the mountains, after finding a site, the group decides the boundaries of each person's garden; with certain areas being fallow (for up to 10 years) and others open to cultivation (for up to 4 years).

Cultural Practices of the Lotuko People:

In Latuka, when a young man wants to marry a girl, he kidnaps her from her home. It is after this act that he goes to visit the girl's father along with his elder male relatives to ask for the blessing to marry. The father then has to respond with a 'yes' or a 'no'.

The religion of the Lotuko People:

Their primary religion is an ethnic religion based on nature and ancestor worship that is deeply rooted in their ethnic identity; conversion to another religion essentially equates to cultural assimilation.

The chief god of the Otuho is called Ajok; he is generally seen as kind and benevolent but can be angered. In Otuho mythology, he once answered a woman's prayer for the resurrection of her son.

Her husband, however, was angry and rekilled the child. Ajok was annoyed by his actions and swore never to resurrect any Otuho again, and in this manner, death was said to have become permanent.

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