Lotuxo

Lotuxo, people of South Sudan, living near Torit, who speak an Eastern Sudanic language of the Nilo-Saharan language family. They grow millet, corn (maize), peanuts (groundnuts), and tobacco and raise herds of cattle. The Lotuxo live in large, fortified villages, often with several hundred huts and divided into quarters. They lack a centralized chieftaincy but recognize the power of hereditary rainmakers, each of whom has ritual and political authority over one of the nine rain...