Archive for category Essays & Views

GUEST ARTICLE: Do we need a Luo National identity?

“Alienation at its most essential level is not poverty or unemployment. It is the inability to imagine your society and therefore to imagine yourself in it.”
- John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium

BY Ojijo Pascal

The Luo Nation has been divided and spread since the great departure from Bar El Gazher.

The Luo Nation needs a sudden shock of reorientation within itself that will divorce us from the largely irrelevant problems of the various countries of which we finally settled, make it possible to speed necessary progress towards creation of the Luo Nation and to develop some new sense of identity, some feeling of being a people who can be described – even if incorrectly – as a nation, and act as if it were so. Read the rest of this entry »

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Guest Article: Causes of Nation Disintegration in South Sudan

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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ”

(Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 4, 1933)


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Guest Article by Ambassador Dhano Obongo

I was impressed by the Sudan tribune website for the report entitled:  ”The Anyuak Kingdom, the most peaceful tribe in Jonglei State “. dated Thursday, August 6, 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Challenges of nation-building, and democratisation in Africa (Anyuak Media)

BY Omar Kalinge

The first challenge is in the definition. There is no agreed definition of nation-building. A 2003 study by James Dobbins and others for the RAND Corporation defines nation-building as “the use of armed force in the aftermath of a conflict to underpin an enduring transition to democracy.”
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