South Sudanese prolific author, poet and publisher, Kuir ё Garang, has just published a new book, South Sudan Ideologically: Tribal Socio-Democracy, SPLM Ideologues, Juba Corruptocrats, Khartoum Theocrats and their Time-Frozen Leadership, which analyzes South Sudan and South Sudanese through an unapologetic Afro-centered philosophizing. The book amplifies the voices of liberation heroes that have been downplayed in history and to the present; especially the wise chiefs of the infamous '1947 Juba conference.'
South Sudanese were subjected to the horrors of Turko-Arab slavery, dehumanization of Arabo-Islamic hegemony and misappropriation of the concept of civilization. While Tribal South Sudanese had stream-lined governance systems, democratized decision-making process, methods of problem solving and value systems, they were still regarded as uncivilized. The wisdom portrayed by the likes of Chief Both Diu and Lado Lolik in 1947 was ignored or downplayed by the British, the Egyptians and the Sudanese Arabs. We now know what became of Sudan soon after 1947: deception, mediocrity, dishonesty and chaos.
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