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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.
Juba s Kilkilu Ana Comedy Show is a weekly comedy night.
Stand-up acts, poetry readings and music shows have no trouble drawing crowds eager for distraction and solace. Indeed, after a civil war, South Sudanese still suffer from violence fuelled by various armed groups.