Credits
Commissioned by: Edmunds Consulting Pty Ltd
Produced by: Morningside Sound Productions
Narrated by: Jennifer Huxley
Producer, creative designer and editor: Louisa Doran Edmunds
Creative designer and co-producer: Julie Berry
Script: Mary Edmunds
Research and interviews: Mary Edmunds and Nawal El-Gack
Art works: Kagi Kowa
Music: Ajak Kwai, WJ de King, and Kodok Chan Amal
Assistance with song translations: Gabriel Bul Yak
Assistance with interviews: Monica Aguang
Technical Consultant: Dusan Mastena
Disclaimer
Interviews were conducted in people’s homes or workplaces, so the quality of recordings varies. Some stories are told in other voices where the original recordings were unclear.
Acknowledgements and thanks for permission to use material
Members of the South Sudanese communities in Canberra and Melbourne who participated in the project, especially the Dinka congregations of St George’s Anglican Church, Pearce, ACT and St Paul’s Anglican Church, Spence, ACT.
Ajak Kwai 2016 Of cows, women and war (album). http://www.ajakkwai.com/music/
Akol Miyen Kuol 2013 The Last Train. Nairobi, Kenya: Camerapix Publishers International Ltd.
W J de King 2016 Peace. Lowkilili Kingdom.
2016 Zaman Towil (a Juba Arabic word that translates as ‘Long time’. dedicated to ‘our soldiers who spent sleepless nights just to keep us safe’.)
https://www.reverbnation.com/wjdeking
ABC Foreign Correspondent, 3 August,2016: Get up, stand up (South Sudan).
British Library, World and Traditional Music.
https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Dinka-songs-from-South-Sudan
University of Edinburgh Linguistics and English Language Department, Nilotic Prosody project (http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/nilotic/summary.shtml). The songs in this collection were recorded and annotated as part of the project Metre and Melody in Dinka Speech and Song. This project was carried out by researchers from the University of Edinburgh and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Beyond Text programme.
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/nilotic/resource.shtml, Song/speech data, first example sung by Kodok Chan Amal on the death of Dr John Garang and translation.
John Mor, Richard Blattman and other family members and friends who contributed to the podcast.
Source references
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