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A young woman wearing headphones is sitting in a chair, recording an unseen subject.

Across four South Sudanese communities, women are archiving 400 songs from five moments in life – childhood (lullabies, birth and naming songs), adolescence (initiation songs), marriage songs, work songs and funerary and mourning songs.

Photo courtesy of Likikiri Collective.

Likikiri Collective Uses Storytelling to Safeguard South Sudanese Women’s Wisdoms

Through songs and Story Circles, South Sudanese women honor and discuss their cultures and traditions across time and space.