Not everyone is happy when you are happy. There are those who feel happy because someone next to them is happy. But there are those who feel jealous when someone next to them is happy. People are not the same. It is up to you to look into it. So,[Read More…]

The first doubting Thomas to deal with is yourself. You should eliminate that part of you which refuses to allow you to accept yourself. By the time you accept yourself, you will have remained with 1 to 2 Thomases who believe by sight and touch like the Biblical Thomas. Accepting[Read More…]

Could CONNECTION be a post-graduate course? Yes, it could be. CONNECTION has become a course to study after graduating from the university. It is a course in which its pursuance has an unspecified number of years. It is a course which is never found in any college. It is a[Read More…]

By Lupai Emmanuel   South Sudan has unprecedented levels of violence against women with disabilities. The majority of them are exposed to various forms of violence throughout their lifetime. Due to the intersecting factors of being a woman, disabled, illiterate, and poor, these intersections put them in a very precarious[Read More…]

As obvious as the fact that Gudele is highly populated, the truth that it is using only one road is a problem looking for a solution. A day hardly passes without an accident occurring on Gudele Road and this is brought about by a quotidian jam to and fro. For[Read More…]

Not long ago, a man, hailing from a poor family, struggled so hard to break the chain of poverty in his family. By the grace of God, he gained wealth and became rich. Most of his wealth were cattle. When he was about to marry, be bought a prestigious bull[Read More…]

During the liberation struggle, many then Southern Sudanese paused their studies and joined the movement to have a country of their own while a majority joined without knowing how to read and write. And a fraction of Southern Sudanese who scattered abroad to financially support the movement had had chances[Read More…]

By Theem Isaac Machar Akot   Miracles are no longer mystical occurrences that do not follow the law of nature as defined in the English dictionary. They are normal parts of our today’s life. This is to say that life itself is a miracle. About 90% of the country’s population[Read More…]

Long time ago, there was a village located far away from water bodies. Not even a single borehole was fixed in the entire village. The inhabitants used to get enough water during the rainy season, where rainwater used to be collected in pools. During the dry season, the inhabitants used[Read More…]

By Ustaz Mark Bang   Here in our country, it’s so controversial that it’s now up to weak people to forgive and ignore. To forgive their leaders and sometimes ignore the facts of suffering. When vulnerable people open their mouths to utter things out of their senses because of their[Read More…]

The soil of South Sudan is highly fertile. It sounds like an insult when it is only called the land of South Sudan without adding the word ‘fertile’. It is agriculturally fertile; do you know that? If a few feddans of the land, which are cultivated, sustain people until the[Read More…]

The global education campaign is “back to school”. Is back-to-school only limited to primary school children? Is it only the secondary children to go back to school? Doesn’t it apply to you also, my teacher? I think it must apply to you too! But why should you? Don’t you want[Read More…]

If the poor and the rich were chemical reactions, they would be reversible chemical reactions with two arrows, one above, pointing at the products and one below, pointing back at the reactants. This is to say that if two poor men are reacted with “commitment” as a catalyst, they can[Read More…]

By Ustaz Mark Bang   Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it (KJV Proverbs 22:6). This nation is in the hands of looters, thieves, sycophants and greedy individuals who always pretend to serve the nation in[Read More…]

  By Theem Isaac Machar Akot   Mourners are not only those who have lost their loved ones or are the pained ones who are undergoing extreme agonies in the sickbeds. They are also those who have floating plans for the future. I had big plans for myself to accomplish[Read More…]

Many people know what integrity means; yes, Integrity in leadership means having strong moral principles, standing by your words, and doing the right thing. It’s a highly valued trait since most employees look to their leader for cues on how to act. A leader that demonstrates the company values in[Read More…]

I have chosen to chase a good living standard in a rightful way. As for other ways, as you can see, I’m too fit to gain a good living standard by any other means. I’m dam fit to join my uncle’s political camp and use my writing ability to earn[Read More…]

By Ustaz Mark Bang   As people continue crying for years, hopping for poverty to end, trying to say I will get rich to do this and that. Majority have forgotten what it means to suffer by working in order to get rich. The worst enemy of the world, is[Read More…]

In South Sudan, life begins in the morning and ends at noon. Many people don’t get the chance to see the new dawn. They are cut off from the queue the same morning or during the day. It is disheartening to start a life with an ending, but it is[Read More…]