Radio Miraya
2731: Pojulu Cultural Festival Launched in Juba
(upbeat music) - The sounds of the Pojillo community right here on the beach, it's 20 minutes to the top of the hour. A little bit late, we had that little hiccup. We couldn't be able to catch up with our time right here on the beach, however, we have our guests right here in the studio and I'm going to very quickly ask them to introduce themselves. I will start to definitely lay these fasts. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) - Cohes, thank you, Radio Maria, and all listeners outside there. (speaking in foreign language) - Pojillo, Casula Festival, 2024. - Great, and one more guest? - Yeah, I'm called Lemi, engineer Lemi William. Lemi, James William. - Okay, Lemi, James William. (speaking in foreign language) That's a nice one here. And, Chairman, why is it important to have this event? - Well, this event basically means a lot to entire Hojillo people and entire South Sudanist full of their culture and their tradition. This event mainly focuses on revise our cultural activities and our tradition, especially in areas of one, closing our food that we normally eat, the language that we talk. Plus, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Can't keep before, (speaking in foreign language) - Advising. (laughing) How do you advise the community, (speaking in foreign language) What do you put, eat? What does the, how does the community dress? How does the community behave? - Yeah, thank you so much. Before I answer that quickly, I just want to go to the question you had asked about the chairperson. The important of the festival is, as I said, we need to revive and define who the Pojillo people are in South Sudan, and maybe African world. And if we define that, we need to identify the basic, the basic courts or the contents that define the tribe. Say, the first thing that defines the tribe, of course, is their language. As you said, in our families right now, when you go, you will start asking a child or another person staying with you, like in my language, I say, "Banda." Then you'll find a child saying, (speaking in foreign language) meaning the language is already deleted. Right now, if you tell a person to speak, in the next two minutes, using Pojillo language, get most likely, he or she may mention, three, four, five words in different language, Arabic or English, deleted in the same language. That gave us this idea of coming up with what to want to revive in our culture. Secondly, of course, the emerges, that happens in our societies, especially in Pojillo. And Pojillo, of course, is one of the six or four tribes of South Sudan, and it's located west of Juba. We are bothering all our neighboring tribes. It's the caru-speaking tribes. Caru refers to people that can understand each other, but with this slight deviation from pronunciation, especially what's, so we are saying, that's a big, big group of people, as a sort of who are those neighbors of yours. Of course, we have our neighbors, the kakos, we have yangara, we have cuckoo, we have the bari, we have Mundari, and yang, I mentioned yangara already. The caru, at this one's that I mean, so Pojillo, by the way, they also do, they listen to what we say. Do you listen to, do you understand when they will speak? - Some of the words, yes, we do. - Some of the words, yeah. So, as I did not finish, the first is the language, second marriage, one to define and clearly, spell how the marriage used to be, and compare it to now. How we change from what we used to do, after marriage, of course, God will always give you a fruit, so marriage, bath of a child, and naming ceremony, after that, when you grow probably, it's a time that you will pass on. And what are the cultures that are supposed to be done, traditional in Pojillo, when somebody does what I supposed to do. So, these are the core values of Pojillo that we want to define. Plus the food, as you mentioned. We have so many, you know, people used to say for over 100 years, simply because they were eating the best organic food. - Do you really like to mention that? - Why? - This is very serious. You know, the river nowadays, they are not as big as fish, yeah. - Absolutely, that's it. - It's a tea, a tea, a cup, a pizza. - Exactly, I think again. - Exactly, exactly. You see, when we used to grow up, when we were young, what we know is cassava is the basic food that we, if you try to ask another pojillo, we didn't sell to them, no, outside, so don't. They always say that our food stuff is cassava, number one. Because cassava has a lot of things. Even the lips, we do it, pondu, which is one of our best sauce that we enjoy. We have, like the cow, the piece, love photo, when I do this. - Pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea, pea. Those ones we can cook into six or, so. - Types, different types. - Different types. - We have, is it good to happen this weekend? - Why, no, just come on witness. Come on, enjoy the organic food of Pojillo. - You're listening to one of one FM and we're talking to the Pojillo, a casual group, right here in the studio. They're not actually, they could not be the group, but they are the part of the group. And they're also part of the committee, which is organizing these upcoming first tibollet. Now, tell us exactly what is expected from the festival and when is it starting and where is it happening? - Thank you so much. Once again, the festival is starting today. Basically, today, the chair. - Is it starting or has it started? - It will start today. - It's about to start. - Okay. - Right now, as we speak, we are putting the stage set and by four. Our chairman of the community, Pojillo. Because Pojillo, we have hierarchy of the community. So the chairperson is actually Dr. Matinee Lomura. He will come with the elders of the chairpersons of the sub-communities of Pojillo, like for instance, in Mokaya. That's Pojillo, in Copera, we have Pojillo. In Uji, we have Pojillo. In Nana, itself, we have Pojillo. In Kenya, we have Pojillo. In Wondruba, we have Pojillo. All these areas, even tinier. We have Pojillo. - They will all be coming. - Oh. - They will all be presented today. - They will be represented. The elders will come, stand together with the chairman and announce the world that the festival has arrived today. Basically, they will just be, they will launch it, speak, then not so many speakers. Then we'll have what we call the Gummile Barabi. Yeah, for the real thing tomorrow. Yeah, and we'll have it after after. - So the big deal is tomorrow. - Tomorrow. - However, it is being launched to this afternoon. - This afternoon. Then we'll have the many events tomorrow in the morning. We are expecting big government delegation, digging tourists, especially our president of the Republic. General Salfa Kermar did, is expected to raise the president as a guest of honor. Great morning. - Sounds good. 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It's a cabin like a festival. It's a festival. You know, festivals, there's what we call food festival, maybe dance festival and the rest. But ours will combine everything, it's all combined in three days. Today we'll be launching it, showing some of the cultural dances we have. Then tomorrow, because we'll stop at eight, then we'll be doing work for tomorrow's occasion. We'll stop at eight p.m. We don't want to overnight because it will not give us enough time to wake up and, you know, beginning at eight p.m. So eight, exactly, all members will be there. And if the present is coming there, if you come there, it probably may not enter. So I am calling upon our people to come very early. We're also inviting all these 63 tribes plus ours, that's six effort. It drives to be in South Sudan. And on Sunday now, we'll pray that in the morning, for one and a half hours, then the rest of the days will now give it for us to dance up to late evening. Again. Again. Yes. This weekend is really busy. It is booked. It's really, really booked. Interestingly there, if you are listening to 101 FM, remember tomorrow, or rather this afternoon, the Projillo Cultural Festival is launching this afternoon and is ongoing until Sunday. So don't miss out and don't miss out to come and see the beautiful ladies. So many. Yeah. I'm not so. But I expect that. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming. Thank you. Thank you so much. I really would love to be there in the festivities. And we hope that will come and have some positive delicacies. And finally, just before we go. Many people know that we are called PPP, Projillo protocol people, simply because if you find a person, they always say if a person is lying down dead and if you are stuck in properly, the lines of that. I thought this PPP has been changed. Thank you very much for coming. And I'll leave you with this beautiful truck from Adawa. This truck has been making headlines all over Juba everywhere, whether in the community business, whether in the club business, whether anywhere this song has become a massive one. It's one production from the PPP community. Thank you very much. Have a great one. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.