History is not only prestigious that it is worth keeping, but it is also a wealth for those who have it.
No matter how much scientists claim the world, calling it the world of scientists, historians in the race call it the world of historians or the historical world. We happily live in this world through ancestrally inherited histories. They help us shape our ways of living and social fabric. Without them, we will not trace where we came from and where we are going.
On the other hand, every nation worldwide came to exist historically, of which South Sudan is part. It is up to the liberators of a country to make history wholly or partially achieved. Depending on what historical phase they have well understood. The basic historical phases are the liberation and democratic phases.
In simple terms, the liberation phase takes up an armed struggle to get rid of the manacle of captivity. Whereas the democratic phase is the after-the-liberation phase built on human rights and constitutional agenda. It is less of an assumption and more of realism. Hence, the comparison has realistically shown that a partially achieved history is built on liberal ideologies, whereas the wholly attained one is on democratic rights and promises.
However, our liberators seem to have partially achieved their history. Simply, their comprehension of it is more of the arts of liberation and less of democracy. Still, we are proud of the then-exceptional leaders who led the national army to struggle and attain independence. If human beings were created through the work of craft, we would go to the blacksmith to bring Dr. John Garang and other heroes who made independence a reality back to life. Their heroic sacrifice paved the way to self-determination, though those who took the mantle of the leadership are overly doing the opposite.
The eventual aim of these successors obsessed with insincerity is to steer the nation away from the ideological world of reform agendas to what suits individual interests. It is a deadly ideology with an unjustifiable end. It is a game of power-hungry politicians who are wrangling over perfection but have not understood the nature of man.
There is no flawless man among the power-hungry, although some men who are ten times as foolish claim to be. It shocks when some men see other men’s faults but fail to realize theirs. And astonishing when some men sack other men from their political positions while they, in a thousand ways, deserve it too.
The Bible says, “You first remove the speck from your eye; that’s when you will be able to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” This dubious act of exposing another man’s weaknesses but hiding one’s incompetency has had devastating effects on this nation.
To sum up, our crucial expectations have been denied, like the word of the Bible written by man and named the Holy Book of God. He went ahead to build the church and called it a house of God. If a man is capable of engineering all these, why is it hard for him to create abject suffering in society and attribute it to his subordinates?
Have a blessed day!
The writer is a third-year student at the University Of Juba School Of Education.