By Malek Arol Dhieu When you omit letter k from monkey, the remaining letters form a prestigious word called “money”. When you add letter y to mone; a similar word for admonishment, it forms a prestigious word called “money”. And so, whoever added letter y to mone has also dragged[Read More…]

By Malek Arol DhieuFor every darker today, there is always a brighter tomorrow. Let us assume 2022 was a darker year, and on the same note, let us assume 2023 is a brighter year. This is just an assumption, not real.I know there are people who do not exactly know[Read More…]

By Malek Arol Dhieu From 2nd Jan to date, South Sudanese who had had what to celebrate the Christmas and New Year with are sickening of three major diseases, namely hangover, lapsus linguae and spendthrifty. Hangover; as celebrations for Christmas and New Year were hither and thither, people celebrated until[Read More…]

By Malek Arol Dhieu People should dismiss a belief in their medulla oblongatas that a dream dreamt while asleep is the only dream achievable, one can even dream while awake and the whole lot succeeds. It isn’t hard to dream, what’s hard is the intelligence to interpret your dream more[Read More…]

By Malek Arol Dhieu From the level of Africa as a continent to that of South Sudan as a country, many gifted leaders have perished in a manner that the pointing finger does not go straight to the known enemy minus passing through a few servant-hearted Africans for the case[Read More…]

By Ngor Khot Garang As I pen this letter, I want you to listen carefully and take your time. I don’t know what tomorrow holds for me. It could be the last or even the beginning of the end for me. Don’t wonder, there are people who decide who lives[Read More…]

By Malek Arol DhieuI, Mr Development, would like to clarify it today that whoever asks me asks a wrong person! Anybody who needs me should go and ask RT-GoNU because what took my dear life is within the Revitalised Peace Agreement which resulted in the formation of the RT-GoNU.When the[Read More…]

By Ngor Khot Garang Little ones, am a weak human. Not my fault. I didn’t choose this life. Maybe God was wrong or else he must have done it by mistake. Where did I go wrong? Always down. I am drowning in my own tears. Why? I feel like there[Read More…]

By Ngor Khot Garang I want to begin this ride with a word of prayer. God, forgive or don’t forgive those who set this house ablaze and those who are fanning it. Whoever may take this prayer personal, please don’t worry. I don’t subscribe to religion, group or any ism[Read More…]

By Chol Peter Majoh Our salaries are oftentimes delayed, not coming promptly in time in addition to the fact that it’s small and not able to cater for all our needs, we are forced to sin to make a living.Yes, conditionally compelled to embezzle, steal or apply corruption in order to manage[Read More…]

A martyr here is not any struggling person out there. I also mean animals and anything including roads that are still in existence. It is one of the hardest times to be alive. And if you are still here, congratulation. But wait, I have a different story. The government has[Read More…]

By Malek Arol Dhieu The historians authoring the history of South Sudan with pens are liars, because the history is so dismayful that it can be best written with tears. I know you don’t care about the poor whom this article refers to also as the needy, but take a[Read More…]

By Makak Gile, Padua, Italy In what circumstances do people value music’s relevance in their daily lives? Generally, music is defined by scholars as the “art of arranging sound” to produce some combination of form, harmony, melody, and rhythm. Exact definitions of music vary greatly around the world, despite the[Read More…]

God balances this world. If you have something, you lose something Sometimes your need for freedom takes away your freedom. No wonder, if you have security, you lose freedom. I enjoy more freedom than a South Sudanese minister or MP. I can buy banana anywhere and enjoy without this worry[Read More…]

What happens when you live your life for others? This question crossed my mind when I read an interesting story of a poor high school teacher who graciously went on to become an eye of the world. Peter Tabichi, a Kenyan and it might not be a new name to[Read More…]

By Chol Peter MajohNothing upsets the apple cart than tribalism does. Everything can be in an apple-pie order but when tribalism gets in, discord, contention, corruption, division, revenge and killing become a new normal. This is actually what’s happening in my country, South Sudan.With the toxic tribalism in South Sudan,[Read More…]

By Malek Arol Dhieu Who knew there would be wars after independence in South Sudan except the one who knew there would be wars? Who knew there exactly would be wars except those who planned to cause them? That day, that particular day when the flag was raised to fly[Read More…]

Why foreign aid is not working for Africa Over the years, dollars, in billions, have been pumped into Africa and there is little or even nothing to show for it. In fact, aid is malignant, deadly. It is the problem! If the world has one image of Africa, it is[Read More…]

By Malek Arol Dhieu Of all the promises made by President Salva Kiir Mayardit during the 23rd Convocation of the University of Juba, two   outmanoeuvred; a promise to pave all the roads within the university and another promise to employ graduates on merit. Neither of these promises was fulfilled, and[Read More…]