The Shilluk is a major Luo Nilotic ethnic group that resides in the northeastern Upper Nile state of South Sudan on both banks of the Nile River in Malakal. Before the Second Sudanese Civil War, the Shilluk also lived in settlements on the northern bank of the Sobat River, close to where the Sobat joins the Nile.
Two Shilluk men, photographed 1936 near Malakal, South Sudan
Shilluk woman carrying a jar
Photo of Shilluk "material culture" from the late 1870s
More Shilluk "material culture"
The Luo, are several ethnically and linguistically related Nilotic ethnic groups that inhabit an area ranging from Egypt and Sudan to South Sudan and Ethiopia, through Northern Uganda and eastern Congo (DRC), into western Kenya, and the Mara Region of Tanzania. Their Luo languages belong to the western branch of the Nilotic language family.
Shilluk men in South Sudan
Anuak girls in Dimma, Ethiopia
Acholi man in South Sudan
Luo dancers in Eldoret, Kenya