There is no opportunity that has a nickname. It is a common mistake branding an opportunity as “golden”. There is no golden opportunity nor is there a silver opportunity, or any of that kind. No opportunity that has a colour. The bigness of an opportunity does not make it golden.[Read More…]

What do you have now? Are you able to discover what you have? Is it a myth that you have something now? Think about what you have as you read this article. You are a classroom teacher. Your complaint is that you don’t have enough tools for making the learning[Read More…]

By Very Rev. Nathaniel Garang Aduotdiit   IT’S NOT WISE TO BLAME GOD. Proverbs 19:3 ERV “People ruin their lives with the foolish things they do, and then they blame the Lord for it.” I have often heard people of God, so helplessly giving testimony, or rather expressing their grievance,[Read More…]

Of the 7.2 million people facing food shortage in South Sudan, roughly 4.0 million are youth, out of a separate report of 1.2 million children with acute malnutrition in South Sudan. This clearly tells that a youthful part of the population is at an increased risk of food shortage. As[Read More…]

Sometimes life seems short when so many good things are happening in your life. Maybe you got a new job and you just celebrated your graduation a few days ago. Now it seems like it is too fast. You want it to be slow so that you enjoy the moment[Read More…]

It is unfortunate that the tuition fees dance to the ugly tune of the dollar rate. As the dollar rate rises to a higher level every year, its tune makes the tuition fees crazy to jump two steps ahead of it. The tuition fees have been on the rise since[Read More…]

I am here to now not talk about the race between the lion and the zebra. I want to take you through a different journey, the struggle of mankind to find a place to call home, which is always temporary. The universe as we all know is too big for[Read More…]

Our house was close to where SPLA new recruits were being trained. Every morning, I could go to watch at how the recruits were being trained. Some would cry with tears due to the painfulness of some tactics of training while others would even fall sick and die. There was[Read More…]

I can’t give you a name! My uncle has become Your friend, Once a strong man, But now very weak You have finished his strength. He can’t do any physical work now. He is just waiting to visit his grave And you think you deserve a name In that?  [Read More…]

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…]