Mai owu Baká. Mai Nyi Baká. I am a Baká boy and I am a Baká girl. These are the phrases that one often hears when in Maridi, South Sudan. Here is a representation of the stories of the Baká people of South Sudan who are of the Central Sudanic group and whose genealogy and fraternity are deeply rooted in the Baká creation mythos. This creation mythos advanced a set of recurrent beliefs and fairy tales about the creation of the first Baká man named by Lomo (God) Mái-yána (Mái-I am, yána – here), and the first Baká woman (believed to be a seraphim) named by God Mîîlumaa (Mîîlu – I like or love it, maa – myself), which means I like or love it myself or by myself". Today, the Baká people live in a strong bond with their environment which is covered with canopied forests, freshness of the air from the mountains, the cooling drops from the rains, the soothing sounds from the flow of the streams from the highlands and the lulling sounds from the Baká songs. These make the Baká people truly masters of their forests, rivers, wild plants and mountains. Above all they are excellent songsters of their jungles, and their songs are often interwoven with the echoes from the rolling mountains, responsive to the flowing rivers and bounces back from the flapping leaves of the trees of their lands. Even the birds and insects of the jungles sing back to the Baká songsters"