Boruboru: South Sudan’s newest spectator sport is one for the girls

September 5, 2018 Boruboru, South Sudan, Sports

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A girl playing for Rockcity in yellow t-shorts verses Angle Stars and other teams at Rockcity playing ground on 12th December 2015. Rockcity won the game. Other teams that participated include the Emmanuela (in green) and Zion girls (in red)(Photo credit: Boruboru South Sudan)

Sept 5, 2018(Nyamilepedia) — Think you’re good at dodgeball? See how long you last in boruboru, a traditional playground game. Formal leagues are giving girls who grew up amid the civil war more opportunities to dive, dodge, and throw.

Read the full Article: The Christian Science Monitor

More about The Boruboru:

BORUBORU is a revived traditional game predominately played by girls in South Sudan. However, since no one had taken the initiative to write and innovate it to transform and empower the players and spectators like the other conventional sports, it was left to die about thirty years ago. Nevertheless, after the independence of South Sudan in 2011, girls start showing tremendous interest by practising boruboru again but played irregularly and informally. There were also over twenty different playing styles and different traditional governing rules and regulations depending on communities and social settings. The variations made it extremely hard to unify and nationalise the boruboru for recognition and widely utilisation.