The Kuku are a tribe of the Karo people from South Sudan. They inhabit the agricultural lands of Kajokeji County in Central Equatoria State. The Kuku speak a Bari dialect, also called Kuku. They are chiefly a farming people relying on mixed farming. During the rainy season they grow substantial food crops, mainly sorghum, (also known in Sudan as dura) pigeon peas (burusut), maize, millet, cassava, sweet potatoes, and beans (loputu). In the dry season they manage a small scale of cattle, goats and sheep herding. The Kuku are good beekeepers. They also practice collective hunting during dry season, hunting with bow and arrow. Their hunting practices also involve trapping animals in a net. History The Kuku people are part of a larger group known as the Bari. There was a good deal of in-fighting amongst the larger group and so they decided to spread out into places where each group felt more comfortable. The Kuku was the group that decided to move south and settle. There are rainmakers who are very famous in the tribe. After the first Sudanese civil war in 1972, there was an agreement amongst south Sudanese groups, and prominent members of the Kuku joined south Sudan's leadership. Administrative authority system Kuku have no centralized form of administrative authority. Their administrative system emerges from bottom to top as follows: Head of the Family – Husband (Monye Mede) Head of the Clan – Elder man in the Clan (Matat lo Köji) Head of the Village – Village Chief (Matat lo Gwoke) Head of the Area – Area Chief (Matat lo Paranet) Head of the Tribe – Head Chief (Matat lo Jur) highest authority man in the tribe With their strong belief in God and God's works through their ancestors, the Kuku tribe have their chiefs associated with water. These chiefs are hence, responsible for rain controls during the crop growing seasons of the year. Kuku land and the district – (Kuku and Kajo-Keji) The land of the Kuku people is called Kuku and the administrative coverage area, which is the County, is given the name Kajo-Keji, after the name of the tribe’s chief (Kajok-Köji) who was in power during the British rule in the Sudan. Kajo-Keji lies in the southernmost part of South Sudan near the Uganda border districts of Moyo and Yumbe. It has an area of almost 112,600 km² and composes of five administrative local