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143: 26: 229:(Our History), a five-part radio series broadcast by Eye Radio (98.6 FM) in Juba. The program was supported by the South Sudan Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, the Rift Valley Institute, and UNESCO, with funding from Norway. The first episode was hosted by Rosemary Ochinyi and focused on documents related to the sentencing of the Torit Mutineers, the second an extract of the Gospel of St Mark from a 1952 Bible; and the third episode focused on an 252:, which means ‘earthly custodian’ in Nuer. ‘They put the word Chief there, which is not correct,’ said Mr Nhial. ‘The office of Kuaar Muon is very independent and very unique, he’s a peace maker and a mediator, he can profess some curses, and whenever a person kills another person, will run to Kuaar Muon.’ 200:
The project has received support from the Government of Norway for the construction of a permanent South Sudan National Archive Building. The Norwegian Government and the Prince Claus Foundation also provided funding for the renovation of a temporary building in Munuki, Juba, to provide temporary
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began a second phase of emergency conservation and digitization, which involved the provision of archive boxes and digitization equipment and training in digitisation techniques and archiving practice for South Sudanese. A third phase, funded by Michigan University and implemented by RVI, followed
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Robert Oakley Collins (1933-2008) was a prolific historian of Sudan. R.O. Collins traveled with his wife to southern Sudan in 1976, after being invited by Enoch Mading de Garang to compile a report on ways to collect and preserve materials related to Southern Sudan's recent history as part of the
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The National Archives of South Sudan grew out of the work of Enoch Mading de Garang who in 1976, when he was the Regional Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, conceived of the idea for an archive of Southern Sudanese political movements. Enoch Mading expanded the archive to include
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The contents of the archive range from the early 1900s to the 1980-1990s and are often the only detailed records of previous local South Sudanese administrations in existence. The archive's holdings include monthly diaries and yearly reports, inspection reports, district and provincial reports,
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was then working for the Southern Records Office in Juba, a predecessor to the National Archives of South Sudan. See Johnson, Douglas (2004). "Talking their Language: A Rare Language Exam from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan".
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accommodation for the Archive. The construction of the new archives building was scheduled to begin in July 2014 and finish in July 2015. The planned construction of a permanent archive was disrupted by
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civil wars. Many documents were destroyed by heat, termites, floods, humidity, fire, and neglect. Many of these records were gathered together in the Southern Records Office in Juba
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lowered after independence would be kept at the National Archive in memory of the neighboring country's "shared history."
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civil wars, to the late 1990s. The archives are run by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports in Juba, South Sudan.
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Douglas Johnson has described recent work on restoring the archive in "The Revival of the Southern Sudan's Archives,"
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Johnson, Douglas (2004). "Talking their Language: A Rare Language Exam from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan".
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In November, 2017, documents preserved in the National Archives of South Sudan were featured on
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Their Second Republic: Islamism in the Sudan from Disintegration to Oblivion
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Government records suffered serious damage in Southern Sudan during Sudan's
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The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Annual 2005/2006 Report
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The radio programs were accompanied by public, pop-up exhibitions in Juba.
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explained that the term leopard-skin chief was an incorrect translation of
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in 2013 and continued the work of emergency conservation and digitisation.
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Southern Sudan's administrative records on the advice of the historian
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United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) (April 29, 2013).
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from 1948. The fourth episode focused on the archive document
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National Archives of the Republic of South Sudan Design Brief
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handing over notes, and general correspondences and reports.
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from 1967. The final episode focused on a document titled
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to the Government of South Sudan after the signing of the
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Communities of South Sudan build their National Museum
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Authority over the archives was transferred from the
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Index


Juba
South Sudan
1900s
independence of Sudan in 1956
First (1955–1972)
Second (1983–2005)
Robert O. Collins
first
second
in the 1970s and early 1980s
Douglas H. Johnson
First Sudanese Civil War (1955–1972)
Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005)

Central Equatoria State
Comprehensive Peace Agreement
Comprehensive Peace Agreement
US Ambassadors’ Cultural Fund
British Institute in Eastern Africa
Rift Valley Institute (RVI)
South Sudan's
Pa'gan Amum Okiech
Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)
old Sudanese flag
instability in South Sudan
Anyanya
"Robert Oakley Collins"
Douglas H. Johnson
"National Archive of South Sudan"

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