I came across an article listing world most liked Facebook pages this week on adweek.com and so I asked myself which ones could be South Sudanese most liked Facebook page. This made me embark on my mini research and compiled most liked 20 pages.

According to my little research South Sudan is still far behind on social media use. South Sudan has only 5 pages verified and no South Sudanese page has reached 1 million likes mark not even Luol Deng who has fans all over the world.

The verified pages includes, MTN South Sudan with 4,321 likes, DYNAMQ with 19,256 likes, US Embassy Juba, South Sudan with 20,405 likes, UNICEF South Sudan with 47,090 likes and finally foreign based basketball star Luol Deng with 633,713 likes.

Below are the top 20 pages starting from #20:

20. Winny Duku’ Official fanpage (14,426 likes )

19. Lopez Lomong ( 15,360 likes )

18. Sudan Tribune ( 15,966 likes )

17. Paleki ( 16,519 likes )

16. South Sudan ( 17,987 likes )

15. Talk of Juba ( 18,706 likes )

14. DYNAMQ ( 19,526 likes )

13. Southern Sudan ( 19,953 likes )

12. US Embassy, South Sudan ( 20,405 likes )

11. theniles.org ( 21,187 likes )

10. Alek Wek ( 21,536 likes )

9. United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) (26,943 likes )

8. Sudanese Vines (27,811 likes )

7. Pagan Amum ( 28,624 likes )

6. Juba, South Sudan ( 36,964 likes )

5. Emmanuel Jal ( 41,831 likes )

4. Dr. John Garang ( 41,992 likes )

3. South Sudan national football team ( 44,504 likes )

2. UNICEF South Sudan ( 47,090 likes )

1. Luol Deng ( 633,713 likes )

 

John Masura (Blogger at hotinjuba.com)