Benjamin Lwoki was a politician from

South Sudan South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the ...

who was an early activist in the movement for autonomy or independence from

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

. He was also a former minister of public works-( Sudan), the first South Sudanese politician in the Sudanese cabinet. Benjamin Lwoki was resilient with his motive to make South Sudan an independent nation, and cement the sovereignty of "Junub Sudan" Benjamin Lwoki belonged to the

Pojulu people The Pojulu (or Pojulu people) is a tribe of the savanna lands in the White Nile Valley, in the Equatoria region of South Sudan. They are Nilotic people and part of the Karo people—which also includes Bari, Mundari, Kakwa, Kuku, Nyangwara, ...

, as did

Aggrey Jaden Aggrey Jaden Ladu (1924, 1927, or 1928 — 1985 or 1987) was a South Sudanese politician. Biography Aggrey Jaden Ladu is from the Pojulu ethnic group, known for promoting the independence of South Sudan from Sudan. He was born in Loka village ...

. In the period leading up to independence he was president of the

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. Faced with insistence that the language of Sudan would be Arabic, taught throughout the country, in a 1954 telegram to

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he refused to support a declaration of independence. After General

Ibrahim Abboud Ibrahim Abboud (; 26 October 1900 – 8 September 1983) was a Sudanese military officer and political figure who served as the head of state of Sudan between 1958 and 1964 and as President of Sudan in 1964; however, he soon resigned, ending S ...

yielded power in November 1964 to the interim government of Sirr al-Khatim Khalifa, all dissident parties and movements were invited to a round table conference. Benjamin Lwoki chaired the conference, which tried to resolve differences and decide on how to achieve national unity. The main decisions were that South Sudan should have self-government, and that it should have a university, schools and hospitals, and a bridge over the Nile at

Juba Juba is the capital and largest city of South Sudan. The city is situated on the White Nile and also serves as the capital of the Central Equatoria, Central Equatoria State. It is the most recently declared national capital and had a populatio ...

to link east to west.

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