Dancers Who Dance Upon Injustice

"Open up the doors and let the music play
Let the streets resound with singing
Songs that bring Your hope
Songs that bring Your joy
Dancers who dance upon injustice"

These song lyrics came to mind this morning as Karen, Acacia, and I joined our South Sudanese brothers and sisters in local dancing on the day of their independence. Karen and I were nearly in tears at one point. It was a JOYFUL day in South Sudan. Each tribal group had their own circle where they were singing and dancing in very unique styles.

These foot shakers make a beautiful noise as the women make small quick steps in a circle around the drummers.


Many of the Moru style dances involve tiny but very quick foot movements, which in Sudan can produce quite a large dust cloud.



This was the Moru-Kodo circle where they are using local animal skin drums, milk can drums, gourd shakers, and animal horn horns.




The Mundari dancers were quite spectacular. These pictures just don't do these men justice. They were repeatedly jumping incredibly high. Mundari men are also typically very tall many being over seven feet tall making their dancing even more spectacular. We did not join in on the Mundari dancing, but I was serenaded at one point.