When Isaac Anthony Lumori launched South Sudan s first weekly comedy show at the height of a civil war in 2014, his performers quips about different ethnic groups were not always well received. . -April 26, 2024 at 02:03 am EDT
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It is a Thursday evening, and the young audience crammed into a concert hall in South Sudans capital city is howling with laughter as a comedian lands his closing punchline. South Sudan got what? shouts the host, Isaac Anthony Lumori, at the full house for a weekly comedy night thats become one ..
Comedy, and other performing arts, found fertile ground in the traumatised young country, even as space for free expression and dissent have shrunk elsewhere.