Kuku people

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The Kuku are a Nilotic tribe of the Karo people from South Sudan. They inhabit the agricultural lands of Kajo Keji County in Central Equatoria State. The Kuku speak a Kuku dialect, also called BaKuku.

They are chiefly a farming people relying on mixed farming. During the rainy season they grow substantial food crops, mainly sorghum, (also known by the kuku people as masika ) pigeon peas (burukusuk), maize ( mbaya), millet, cassava, sweet potatoes, and beans (loputu). In the dry season they manage a small scale of cattle, goats and sheep herding. The Kuku are good beekeepers. They also practice collective hunting during dry season, hunting with bow and arrow. Their hunting practices also involve trapping animals in a net as their cultural food which was believed to be a source of wisdom and knowledge is the rat.