The podcast series “African Voices, African Arguments” features African scholars, writers, policy makers and activists on issues of peace, justice and democracy, and is produced by World Peace Foundation and presented in partnership with African Arguments and The Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University.

In this episode of African Voices, African Arguments, World Peace Foundation Executive Director, Alex de Waal speaks with South Sudanese scholar and activist, Jok Madut Jok on race and liberation in South Sudan.

“Your citizenship is the primary source of your inclusion as a respected member of that community, and not what you worship or the tone of your skin color.”


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Jok Maduk Jok headshot

Jok Madut Jok is a professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and co-founder of the Sudd Institute, a public policy research center based in Juba, South Sudan. He is South Sudanese and runs a school in Apuk, Gogrial State, that supports education for girls.


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Photo: New Flag, New Country\European External Action Service, July 9, 2011 CCBY-NC-ND 2.0

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2 Responses to Race and Liberation in South Sudan and the U.S: A Discussion with Jok Madut Jok

  1. JACOB JIEL AKOL says:

    A very good discussion Jok and Alex. I listened all through.

  2. I think as long as humans can “see” the superficial differences of skin color, they will react accordingly. If we were all color blind it would be a different world.

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