Up at and leave for Bole Airport by Check in and leave by C47 at Touch down at Gambela at about After details taken care of at Airport โ show ID cards โ where teaching, etc. To store, limited supplies expensive but available โ sugar flour, spaghetti, canned fruit, etc. Find that the proprietor Greek will be leaving in 2 weeks therefore, the store will temporarily close.
Then travel along river to Pokwo by Land Rover: swamp land, and land that is planted with corn right after first rains and before river floods the lowlands. Arrive in Pokwo Presbyterian mission station by p. Afternoon: rest and supper. The people are dark, tall and quite friendly. There are very obvious physical differences between the Anuak and the Amhara. Diet based on corn. The basic food is a corn mush of which large quantities are consumed.
The Amhara government officials, police etc. The Amhara were previously quite brutal in governing. The military felt free to enter villages and take what they wanted. Now not so. But still, government officials lord it over the Anuak and Nuer. Anuak now are becoming more aware of the central Ethiopian government. There are increased education possibilities and the influx of transistor radios.
Radio Ethiopia is listened to but more so is a station from across the Sudan border which broadcasts 2 times a week in Anuak in language and music.
Comment made that the station is greatly respected because of the broadcast in Anuak. A lesson for radio Ethiopia. There are approximately 40, Anuak in the area living on both sides of the Eth-Sudan border. The most live in Ethiopia. The language is to an extent tonal, mostly on inflections of sentence endings. The Nuer living next to them are a contrast. Anuak are primarily farmers, raising corn and some other crops but little evidence seen of cattle or goats.
