Before birth, your father tries all he can to make sure his children have a bright future. He delays marrying your mother just to have enough resources to marry a girl from a reputable family or a girl whose star is already shining. With a girl from a reputable family,[Read More…]

By Bek Dhuorjang Chol   Since establishing South Sudan as an independent country in 2011, its education sector has faced intensified challenges. A recent interview conducted by Emmanuel Joseph Akile of Eye Radio with Dr. Kuyok Abuol Kuyok, the undersecretary of the national Ministry of General Education and Instruction, on[Read More…]

It is true that what goes around comes around. But there are some instances where what goes around does not really come around. There are many stories to tell about this beautiful phrase “What goes around comes around.” In one of the African countries, a certain soldier had seized power[Read More…]

In 1998, there was a famine in the then Southern Sudan. The territory was foodless. People used to travel somewhere to fetch food. Other people were living on wild plants. It was a terrible famine ever recorded in the history of famines. It had claimed a thousand, if not a[Read More…]

Each day, as we traverse the rough terrains of life, we are saddened and often haunted by the disturbing realities of our day. The stories about a better place we can proudly call home far from where we are and the future we are constantly reminded to believe in, turns out[Read More…]

By Bek Dhuorjang Chol   Summary This article examines the challenges and opportunities in integrating war veterans and wounded heroes into the national development process of South Sudan. It analyses the gap between the promises made to veterans during the liberation struggle and their actual fulfilment, emphasizing the importance of[Read More…]

By Alei Wol-maker   The messes of our societies are incomparable to any other indigenous societies around the world. Our multiple tribes in South Sudan left their unique cultures of resolving grievances and turned into a belief in killing each other including infants, oldest age, domestic animals, destroying properties plus[Read More…]

By Deng Akoldit Ajuong   “In an African example, there was a pastor who was born into a family of witch doctors and was being trained to become a witch doctor himself. During his training, he wore bracelets, believing that his survival depended on them. He also kept various items[Read More…]

For all of us, it is hard to know that we are all locked up in an invisible prison without trials for a crime we have never committed. We are all coming from nowhere and it seems like we are going nowhere but we just want to get there, a[Read More…]

Every day, I am a hustler looking to get paid, said Tupac Shakur. This is a hard slap on the faces of hustlers. This very week, hustling no longer yields. No good harvest at all. We are not making both ends meet. Before, we used to make both ends meet[Read More…]

What people see as 6, other people see it as 9. This is exactly how inflation is seen in South Sudan. Politicians are very funny people. When they see a cow, they call it a donkey. And when they see a donkey, they call it a cow. That is the[Read More…]

Life in the jungle, just like this life in South Sudan is about running.  You just have to run, now, today and every day because your life depends on it. The jungle is not for the weak and because you are weak, you have many reasons to blame nature for[Read More…]

By Amb. Charles Tai Gituai   Today, South Sudan marks four years since the Revitalised Transitional Government of National Unity (RTGoNU) was formed on 22 February 2020 and the Transitional Period began. The Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) gives the[Read More…]

There lived two brothers from different mothers. Their names were John and Angelo. John was a hard-working young man. If you would rank hustlers worldwide, he would fall in the top 10. Each day he set himself in motion, he would return with meat of an elephant or a buffalo.[Read More…]

South Sudan is too fast; please fasten your seat belts It is so interesting to be in South Sudan especially when you are here in person. The country is running at a high speed and those on board can’t even tell where it is going. Crazy that nobody wants to[Read More…]

It is not good to know the physical appearance of everything. Sometimes, some things have scary appearances. But sometimes, other things show themselves to people by force. Yesterday, I slept hungry and when I woke up in the morning, my hustling mood was very doom. So, I again spent the[Read More…]

The future is not always as bright as you think. Sometimes you may be living in the future without your knowledge. For students, it is passing with good grades and having a good job. Maybe starting a family, that is the future. Sometimes the future is living in the place[Read More…]

It has reached a dismaying point where people are living by autophagy or self-eating. In layman’s jargon, autophagy is an act of eating oneself. This is a pathologic term and because it fits the status quo, I beg to lend it for usage. Autophagy (self-eating) refers to the lysosomal digestion[Read More…]

I have been to some hospitals and been through moments of silence, of pain. I have seen families struggle with virtually nothing to save the life of their loved ones and most times, it ends with tears and pain. It is not about how much we try. It is how[Read More…]

Capt. James is handless. He was not born without hands, but he lost them during the liberation struggle for independence. This is not the only injury he had sustained. He had sustained multiple injuries. Before his arms were amputated, a PKM bullet had penetrated his abdomen, injuring his small intestine.[Read More…]