South Sudan at Heart

Letter to the BBC’s Resident Presidents By: Abraham Daljang Maker, Kampala Uganda. Dear resident Presidents, this letter come to inform you that I am forming an opposition for democratic change (ODC). We have been fighting together for 50 years in the Bush house in order to obtain independent. Indeed, we moved to the new house at broadcasting House after we overwhelmingly voted for independence. I know you have not been happy with me because of my thirst for power which made me defected several times during our movement, you must know that all I needed was power. But thank God that I became the Vice president in our new house government in London. I was about to start enjoying the sweat of our toil at a dinner table but you sacked me and the entire BBC cabinet before we could relish the food; we oppose you because we could not stand seeing you eating alone when we had all suffered during that thicket Bush house war in London. I was so impatient to wait for the next electio...

Letter of complaint from South Sudanese child  By: Abraham Daljang Maker KAMPALA: Dear Fathers, I am writing this letter of complaint with tears rolling down my cheeks. I am totally broken down and I don’t know what to do; I always become the victim of the circumstances whenever any event unfolds. This leaves me with unanswered question, why always me? I can still remember every event even if I am sleeping and I will continue to recall all the incidences as much as my memory can afford. It was on 16 may 1983 in Bor town when you, my own dads said you were tired of the way your brothers (Arabs) were mistreating me and you wanted me to be a free child in my own country. I had seen the ugly face of the war and its ramifications, there were metallic birds that would fly over heads defecating with hot feces on our grass thatched roofs burning it with flames, and my mother would run with me to a hole dug around our compound. She covered me with her fragile body exposing he...