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I’m Mamer Dau Thuch, the author of The Shadows of Wrath-Life Trials.I was born in South Sudan, a country known both for its extensive resources and its dangerous civil wars.Poor leadership has led to widespread fear in South Sudan.Civil wars have killed millions since 1983 and have forced millions more to ∩¼éee to neighbouring countries. Many more people have taken refuge in Europe, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and other countries across the globe. In 1991, I myself faced death in South Sudan. Conflict always made my life and safety uncertain, and I was exposed to the horrors of war at a young age. In 1991, the genocide struck the citizen of Bor, perpetrated by the Nassir faction. I was almost killed, and when I survived, I was left with nothing but my memories. I ∩¼éed to Ngalngala in Central Equatoria State, thinking that the war would eventually cease and that I would return to my village. But safety did not come, and I never saw my village again. I would be a refugee for the rest of my life. I do not believe that peace will prevail in my country in my lifetime, and I know that others who share similar journeys to my own feel the same way. I am haunted by the horrors of Bor’s genocide and by the trauma of the civil wars in my village and which I also faced in my country. The atrocities I witnessed in South Sudan helped me to understand the world and gave me my story to tell. My hope in telling the story of my life’s trials is that, should I live to marry and have children, they will read about my experiences and understand the history of South Sudan. I hope that my future family and my readers will learn what it means to be a refugee and what it takes to settle in a country so far from home. 

THIS BOOK FOCUSES ON THE ROLE of the SPLM/A in the negotiating process that eventually brought about the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005. It presents a precise description and explanation of the processes involved in the design and implementation of the CPA and its predecessor, the Addis Ababa Agreement (AAA), signed in 1972. It takes an interpretative constructivist approach to underline the importance of studying the process by which peace agreements are made, particularly the concept of 'learning by doing'. The book concludes that the process by which the CPA was achieved challenges the widely held conviction in conflict resolution theories that armed conflicts are ended when the warring parties have reached a stalemate or when international pressure is high. The Sudanese experience suggests that a true peace agreement comes when the parties mutually acquire confidence through social interaction in the negotiating process. It was the back-and-forth dynamic of 'learning by-doing' through negotiation that was as important as any rationally based deal reflecting costs and benefits. Through these negotiating sessions the belligerent delegations were able to build mutual confidence and trust and were able to reciprocate and adjust their positions; a clear indication that both sides were increasingly able to compromise on their positions – something that had been lacking when negotiations began. Continuous interaction between opposing sides is, therefore, a vital element in conflict resolution. During these negotiations and the ongoing interaction, they required, Vice President Ali Osman Taha and the leader of the SPLM/A, Dr John Garang de Mabior, developed a personal relationship to the extent that they learned to trust one another. The IGAD mediators ensured that the gains made as a result of this personal relationship between the principal negotiators would lead to the eventual success of the mediation process.

I was brought up in a foster home, when I was 9-years-old a Sunday school teacher came to our school and told us about Jesus. I was instantly attracted to His name and the Sunday school teacher said “Give all of your heart”. So I went to my Nanna’s that weekend and got on my knees and gave Jesus my heart. All turned to doom when I was abused by a step-dad, it crushed my faith and belief about myself. I grew to lead a sinful life and left home when I was 18-yearsold.  But something was tugging at me to know Jesus again, it was a beautiful, still voice. When I turned 29 I was sick of my sinful life and decided to join a church but I still struggled. I spent about 18 years in and out of mental hospitals but was still believing for a miracle. Finally my hospital stays ended as I drew closer to Jesus. Then I was diagnosed with breast cancer having two lumps. So I sat and read God’s word over it and  not long after this the Holy Spirit intervened and said your breast cancer is healed! Sure enough the biopsy was clear no more cancer!I have a very supportive husband and family who have seen me through my illness and been there for me. I decided I would put some uplifting  poetry in a book with part proceeds going to the needy. I now live for Jesus and have much to thank Him for. MY life is now Christ’s and I long to see others saved and to see the poor free and abused saved and to come to Christ.Michelle Lee Carter

Migration and settlement of refugees is something challenging many countries at different levels in term of services delivering to families and young people. Migration of refugees is very complex and often happens because of many reasons such as civil wars, regional wars, liberation struggles, uprising against oppressive regime. Resettlement is one of the better options for refugees to save their lives from hardships and conflicts. This book is for policy makers, researchers, community services organisations/ practitioners such as youth workers and social workers that works with families and young people from South Sudanese/ refugee backgrounds. The book covered some critical challenges and opportunities available for families and young people such as participation in sport, employment and education, connection with right people and right services."This is a timely book. Dr William Abur has meticulously documented challenges and opportunities of South Sudanese refugees in Australia. In doing so, Abur has successfully interweaved his personal accounts as a refugee, social worker and scholar with experiences and stories of his community. The analysis sheds some lights on experiences of African refugees in the areas of settlement, integration, employment, education, sport and racial relations. The book is an excellent read for anyone who is interested in the history, culture and contributions of South Sudanese Australians." Dr Tebeje Molla (PhD), Research Fellow, Deakin University "William Abur's book is an important contribution to the growing literature on the settlement of the South Sudanese community in Australia. A South Sudanese man from a refugee background, a qualified and experienced social worker in the field of refugee settlement, and an academic teaching critical social theories, Abur is uniquely placed in linking the experiences of his community with the academic literature.This unique perspective resonates throughout the book in the personal voice of the author as he carefully immerses his readers in the complexities of starting a new life in Australia at a time when multiculturalism is under threat and racism and discrimination are, once again, on the rise". Dr Ibolya (Ibi) Losoncz - School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), The Australian National University.William Abur, PhD, is a lecturer in social work at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on critical social work, migration and settlement of refugees, racism and discrimination, benefits of participation in sport and employment, mental health and wellbeing.

This is a must-have book for, everyone who desires to understand and wants to live in the perfect will of the creator full of joy and immeasurable success. Author Joseph K Jok provides great insight and simplicity of God's original plan, purpose and mission for humanity before creation and how we can walk in his original plan, purpose and mission. This book explains how you can walk in total victory that God has for your life, through this powerful transforming book you will….. • Understand God's original plan. • Discover your identity, purpose and potential in life. • Redemption through Christ, understanding the message of the gospel • The supernatural kingdom of God. • How to inherit God's promises. • The power of a transformed mind. • Discover God's prophetic destiny for you. Israel had to face seven mighty nations that dwelt in Canaan land to possess their given inheritance the promise land, the Lord promised to drive out the seven nations little by little until Israel completely took over the land (see Deuteronomy 7). The battle over the promise land or your prophetic destiny requires you to have the right perspective, which is the ability to visualize and imagine the promise land which represent God's destiny for your life already being given to you by the Lord. Your mind needs to conceive a new imagination of the reality of the promise God gave you, Israel crossed the red sea but still carried the vision of Pharaoh of slavery beyond the red sea in their hearts and minds. The lesson is don't allow your mind to be occupied with anything that is not of God's plan. You were not created for a mundane or mediocre life full of pain and shame, God didn't create you just to live on a pay check he is your source. This book unpacks time tested revelation and message from the word of God that will work for anyone who believes and applies them to become the person God created them to be. About the authorJoseph K. Jok is an anointed great teacher and preacher of the word of God with an apostolic call on his life, to see his generation, generations Joseph K Jok started preaching at the age of 14 and has seen both young and old transformed and changed by the power of God through his ministry. Joseph has travelled internationally and nationally preaching and teaching the word of God with profound insight and demonstration of the Spirit. He is the founder and the president of Joseph Kur Jok ministries with an Apostolic mission that seeks to reveal the invisible King and his kingdom on earth as it is in heaven in everyone's life.

As the title illustrates, the book is a story of war and peace talksthat culminated in Agreement on the Confl ict Resolutionin South Sudan (ARCSS) in July 2015 and its final versionof September 2018 known as Revitalized Agreement on ConflictResolution in South Sudan (R-ARCSS). It emanates from the insidepersonal experience of the author who served as a frontline negotiatorrepresenting the SPLM/A (IO) from Addis-Ababa Peace Talks to HighRevitalization Forum in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia and up to the face toFace phase in Khartoum, Sudan. Based on his own grasping of thethe entire peace process, the author provides in-depth analysis of issuesdiscussed to resolve the conflict as well as critical reflections on thethe diplomatic atmosphere under which the talks were conducted in Addis-Ababa, Arusha, Entebbe and in Khartoum. In sum, the book is largelya story of violent armed conflict, intransigence, tyranny of gun cultureand lack of political will to resolve the devastating five years civil strifein South Sudan.WAR.

In Nuer land not too long ago was a man who was well known during his life and after his death and often not for all the right reasons. Weirial Gatyiel Puok Baluang's The Stories of Kulang Toat, take us through Kulang's life and the effect he had on his family and his community around him. With clear moral lessons on what one should and should not do and an interesting look at Nuer traditions, practices and folktales, Kulang Toat's life story will make you both laugh and despair. The Stories of Kulang Toat are a key part of South Sudanese culture and history and though usually orally passed down, are now collected here in written form for all to enjoy.

The Rise and Fall of SPLM/SPLA Leadership provides lively and descriptive narratives of key leaders of the South Sudanese revolutions, with special attention to the debates and issues that make South Sudan's history relevant to both contemporary South Sudanese and wider audiences.Author Daniel Wuor Joak, an influential South Sudanese politician, illuminates the historical significances of South Sudan's social, political, and economic affairs within the wider context of Sudan-an extraordinary achievement, given the multiplicity of peoples and regions and the complexity of tribal rivalries within the country.The title of this book refers to the nine founding members of the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement and its army. Their rise and fall should serve as a reminder of the shortcomings of the leaders who planted the seeds of disharmony from the onset of the struggle for South Sudanese independence.With its freedom won on July 9, 2011, South Sudan's people know the stakes are high, should this nascent nation fail to manage its own affairs responsibly. For this reason, the issues that damaged the liberation movement need to be understood and resolved by members of all sixty-four united tribes to avoid lapsing back into an oppressed state.The Rise and Fall of SPLM/SPLA Leadership provides lively and descriptive narratives of key leaders of the South Sudanese revolutions, with special attention to the debates and issues that make South Sudan's history relevant to both contemporary South Sudanese and wider audiences.Author Daniel Wuor Joak, an influential South Sudanese politician, illuminates the historical significances of South Sudan's social, political, and economic affairs within the wider context of Sudan-an extraordinary achievement, given the multiplicity of peoples and regions and the complexity of tribal rivalries within the country.The title of this book refers to the nine founding members of the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement and its army. Their rise and fall should serve as a reminder of the shortcomings of the leaders who planted the seeds of disharmony from the onset of the struggle for South Sudanese independence.With its freedom won on July 9, 2011, South Sudan's people know the stakes are high, should this nascent nation fail to manage its own affairs responsibly. For this reason, the issues that damaged the liberation movement need to be understood and resolved by members of all sixty-four united tribes to avoid lapsing back into an oppressed state.The Rise and Fall of SPLM/SPLA Leadership provides lively and descriptive narratives of key leaders of the South Sudanese revolutions, with special attention to the debates and issues that make South Sudan's history relevant to both contemporary South Sudanese and wider audiences.Author Daniel Wuor Joak, an influential South Sudanese politician, illuminates the historical significances of South Sudan's social, political, and economic affairs within the wider context of Sudan-an extraordinary achievement, given the multiplicity of peoples and regions and the complexity of tribal rivalries within the country.The title of this book refers to the nine founding members of the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement and its army. Their rise and fall should serve as a reminder of the shortcomings of the leaders who planted the seeds of disharmony from the onset of the struggle for South Sudanese independence.With its freedom won on July 9, 2011, South Sudan's people know the stakes are high, should this nascent nation fail to manage its own affairs responsibly. For this reason, the issues that damaged the liberation movement need to be understood and resolved by members of all sixty-four united tribes to avoid lapsing back into an oppressed state.

To the suffering people of South Sudan.You and your freedom fighters struggled so hard and forso long for your freedom, for your human dignity, for yourhuman rights. You had so many dreams for yourself andyour children for a better future in peace and freedom andwith social justice and development.But you were let down by irresponsible leaders who forgotwhat the freedom struggle was about and made greedtheir creed and destroyed your beautiful land.You did deserve something very different and much better.

The history of Torit Munity is a culmination of resistance of the people of Southern Sudan against foreign invasions and foreign Interventions in the region. The advent of the Turks, the Egyptians, the British, the French, the Italians, and Belgians in Southern Sudan transition from ethnic cantons to what became Southern Sudan in 1920 can be understood within the context of the formation of the Equatoria Corps in 1924. The people of Southern Sudan for the first time were recruited into the Sudan army as a separate military unit with headquarters in Torit town, Eastern Equatoria.

PrefaceI first came across Percy Coriat's neglected writings on the Nuer in 1972 when beginning research on the history of the Nuer prophets. They appeared to me then, even in the early stages of my research, to be of a quality quite different from other contemporary administrative reports. I came to appreciate his work all the more after doing fieldwork among the Gaawar and Lou Nuer in 1975-6, when I met many persons who had known Coriat well. My research on Nuer history then brought me in touch with persons in Britain who knew either Coriat or his work, and I was particularly pleased to meet his widow, Mrs. Kay Coriat, in 1977. She allowed me full access to her husband's few remaining papers and photograph collection before donating these papers, and some of her own, to Rhodes House, Oxford.This volume presents all of Coriat's known major writings on the Nuer, with the exception of his 1939 article on Guek (Coriat 1939). A preliminary list of his reports was published in JASO in 1981 (Johnson 1981b­). I later discovered a number of his other papers in the Sudan, some in Khartoum, but most were in Malakal and Bor before I transferred them to the Southern Records Office in Juba. It is possible that more documents may be found, but the prospect is not hopeful. His reports on the Lou were transferred from Abwong to Akobo in 1937 but were destroyed when the Akobo office burned down in 1939. Some of his writings on the Gaawar may still be in Fangak. None had been transported to New Fangak when I visited the office there in my capacity as Assistant Director for Archives in the Regional Ministry of Culture and Information in 1981. I was told that some of the oldest district reports had been left in a storeroom in old Fangak when the administrative headquarters was moved in 1976. I subsequently learned that many of those papers were damaged or destroyed when old Fangak was attack and looted by 'Anyanya II' guerrillas late in 1981. I have not been able to visit the offices in Bentiu, but record-keeping in the early days of Western Nuer District was haphazard at best. However hopeful we may be that a more complete corpus of writings might one day be compiled, that hope should not delay the publication of the substantial body which has already been gathered together.About the authorPercy Coriat was the first Nuer-speaking British official to produce a substantial body of informed and detailed reports on the Nuer. This volume brings together all of his most substantial writings found in Sudanese, South Sudanese and British archives to date, and makes them available for the first time to a wider audience interested in the history and ethnography of the Nuer. These papers give the most comprehensive account yet publish of Nuer life in the 1920s, describing the events that preceded and led to Evans-Pritchard's own fieldwork in the 1930s and providing a much-needed historical context for his famous Nuer trilogy.

The conflict over the identity of Sudanproduced two contradictory ideologicalvisions for what Sudan represented. Thedevelopment of political organizations inSouth Sudan during the period 1920s-1972 isthe history that this book attempts to relate.It is a history of political ideas that were lateron transformed into political and militaryorganizations, each on its own ways tried toachieve what was the core of conflict that ispolitical and socio-economic identity for thepeople of South Sudan.

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Bol Majok Adiang is a former South Sudanese localgovernment administrator and an accountant by profession.He worked as a local government administrator in the Sudanesegovernment from 1972, before joining the SPLM/A movementin 1986. After completing SPLA military and political training,he continued his work as administrator in Southern Sudan'sSPLA administration from 1992 until the ComprehensivePeace Agreement (CPA) was signed.During his career as an administrator he was highlysuccessful in both Bahr Ghazal and Upper Nile regions wherehe was rapidly promoted.He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from theKhartoum University and a post- graduate diploma indevelopment administration (DDA) from Birmingham, UK.He is a loving husband, father and grandfather. He iscurrently living with his family in Kuajok, South Sudan afterhe lost his sight due to injuries infl icted to his eyes during theSudan Civil War.This autobiography is Bol Majok Adiang's fi rst book.

The Sudan state have been in crisis for too long, and rarely did any of the numerous political organizations in the country take the risk and the burden to debate, ∩¼üght and negotiate for the transformationof the country from a decadent military coup prone underdevelopedstate to a viable democratic country; and from a religious fanatic andracist state to a multi-cultural and multi-religious tolerant state. Sinceindependence only the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army(SPLM/A) dared to challenge all the shades of Sudanese political spectrum to transform the country into a viable economic and politicaldemocratic and secular country, where citizenship is the criteria forbelonging to a nation. 

By the mid 1990s, Western media interest in HIV/AIDS activities had waned, because forecasts of a high rise in HIV infections and AIDS deaths in the wealthier parts of the world did not materialise. Prevention programmes were successful while drug treatment was delaying the on-set of AIDS. Africa was different. HIV infections were rising rapidly and evenly among the sexes. AIDS deaths were also increasing while African leadership appeared to be in denial of the disease. Ignorance about the disease prevailed while any government prevention programmes were poorly organised and ∩¼ü nanced. Still the media paid scant attention to what was clearly an epidemic by the turn of the century. UNAIDS planned to hold the 13th International AIDS Conference inDurban, South Africa, in 2000, hoping to attract the attention of the wealthier world. It got more media coverage than it bargained for: An old debate among scientist turned political when the host-country’s president unexpectedly intervened in apparent support of dissident scientists’ views; controversy followed and the media poured in. Controversial issues on HIV/AIDS made headlines and kept African AIDS in the news throughout 2000. How did the media conduct itself in such debates – which at times had racial undertones – and, with the increasing concerns about AIDS deaths on the continent, how is the media to conduct itself responsibly in HIV/AIDS and similar disasters are the concerns of this book..JACOB  J. AKOL was born in South Sudan on an uncertain date in the late 1940s and was educated there up to the intermediate school. He then received scattered formal secondary and college education as a refugee in Congo (DRC), Tanzania, Zambia, Irish Republic and England, where he trained as broadcast journalist and eventually earned an MA degree in Communication Arts and media from the University of Leeds. As an aidworker/journalist in the 1980s and 1990s, he travelled the length and breadth of the African continent from Antananarivo through Cape Town to Cairo and from Mogadishu to Timbuktu and beyond, reporting disasters wrought by chronic wars, disease and famine. Akol is the author of I Will Go the Distance aka Long Way to Tipperary (Paulines Publications Africa 2005) subtitled The Story of a ‘Lost’ South Sudanese Boy of the Sixties; Burden of Nationality, Memoirs of an African Aidworker/Journalist 1970s – 1990s.  His Dinka Folktales is published in both English and Japanese. He is married to Joy and they have two grown-up children, Aker and Atem.

Preface to the Fourth EditionThis is the fourth edition of this book. The previous editions were in2001, 2009 and 2011. The book has been in high demand in Sudan(s)and East Africa but its exposure to readers beyond this geographicalarea was limited due to the scope of publication.This edition is prompted by two considerations. First, there is apressing need to get it to more readers across the globe. Second, thecurrent state of turmoil in the new state, South Sudan, has left manypundits wondering as to what went wrong in a country that was fullof hope and promise when it was declared independent in July 2011.This book does not claim to provide all the answers but it has clearlyshown that the state of political disorganization of the SPLM/A, theruling party, since its inception was a disaster in the waiting. Perhapsthe readers may want to refresh their memories by going through thearguments put forward in that direction more than 16 years ago.As always, I am grateful to all who advised me to republish thebook and also to those who helped me in any way to prepare it forpublication.Dr Lam Akol,Addis AbabaAugust, 2017.

This collection of articles first appeared in The Pioneer weekly newspaper. Its founding editor, Atem Yaak Atem, invited me to contribute a weekly column of historical pieces that we decided to entitle “Past Notes and Records”. Back in the early 1980s when we were colleagues in the Regional Ministry of Culture and Information I had written a series of articles called “The Streets of Juba” for The Southern Sudan Magazine, which Atem had also founded. In those articles I gave brief biographies of some of the famous South Sudanese after whom some of Juba’s main streets had been named, and in many ways “Past Notes and Records” is a continuation and expansion of that earlier series.The pieces are intended to inform and to stimulate discussion and debate. The history of South Sudan has been a neglected subject. Much of the academic history about South Sudan has been written about foreign rulers rather than about South Sudanese communities and individuals. The history of South Sudan and South Sudanese was not included in the Sudan school syllabuses and is usually excluded from the general political histories of Sudan. There is still no reliable textbook on South Sudanese history for use in its schools. South Sudanese may know something about the past of their own communities, but few have had the opportunity to learn much about the broad history of their nation or how it fits into the wider region.The columns in this collection were originally addressed to a South Sudanese readership, and it is primarily for that readership, both at home and abroad, that they are republished here. This book is neither a comprehensive overview of South Sudan’s past, nor a record of the most important events or historic personalities. It is more like a selection of snapshots from a family album. The re-discovery of the past and the writing of history is a never-ending process. This booklet is only a beginning, a small offering to mark South Sudan’s achievement of independence. It is an open invitation to South Sudanese to research and write more about their own past.The authorDr Douglas H. Johnson is a scholar specialising in the history and affairs of Sudan and South Sudan. He is a Fellow of the Rift Valley Institute. Dr Johnson’s contacts with the two countries go back to more than four decades ago, beginning with time as a graduate student of prophecy among the Nuer people in the 19th and 20th centuries. His field work concentrated in central Upper Nile Province. In mid-1970s young Johnson joined the Regional Ministry of Culture and Information in Juba as assistant director for archives, a position in which he collected and classified documentary material from provincial capitals of the Southern Region. The files were later housed in Juba. Over the years, the historian has tirelessly worked with institutions and recently with the Government of South Sudan for the establishment of a national archive in Juba. Dr Douglas Johnson became a member of the Abyei Boundary Commission following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the Sudan’s armed conflict in 2005. He is an author and editor of several books on Sudan and South Sudan. Among these are The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars, Nuer Prophets: A History of from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, The Upper Nile province Handbook (editor). The last tome has been reissued as a paperback by the African World Books, the publisher of this volume.

AbstractThis little book documents the brief history of contemporarySouth Sudanese politics within the context of the 22 years ofthe second war of liberation. A portion of it explores 17 yearsof the first Sudanese civil war that ended in 1972 through theAddis-Abba Agreement. The book has made the meaningfulanalysis of the governance after the birth of the World'snewest Republic (South Sudan). It is divided into seven majorchapters. Each chapter addresses the unique context of theSouth Sudanese political, civil, religious and military life.Chapter one introduces the book in its etymological contextto the reader and chapter two narrates on ethnic groupingsin South Sudan. Chapter three explores the significant rolesplayed by ethnic groups during the war of liberation in SouthSudan and beyond. This chapter appreciates positive contributionsmade by various ethnic groups in supporting the warefforts.In chapter four, the author teased the negative politicsrendered in ethnic context and explained how that negativityresulted in bloodshed of innocent civilians. In this chapter,some theories that have aided negative ethnic politics in thecountry have been discussed. Chapter five addresses religioussignificance and explores its negative role in fueling conflictsand feuds in South Sudan and elsewhere in the world. A significantpart of this chapter is dedicated to the discussion of SouthSudan as a failed state in chapter six; and as a country born inthe 21st century, many analysts have argued that South Sudanxv