{"id":49206,"date":"2023-12-12T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/south-sudan-faces-identity-crisis-despite-being-a-country-prof-adwok"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:28:05","slug":"south-sudan-faces-identity-crisis-despite-being-a-country-prof-adwok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/south-sudan-faces-identity-crisis-despite-being-a-country-prof-adwok","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan faces identity crisis despite being a country- Prof. Adwok"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>A veteran politician Prof. Peter Adwok Nyaba says South Sudan is facing an identity crisis as the country is often called by its geographical name. This was during the review of a film on the Anya-Nya rebellion at the Norwegian Embassy in Juba a few days ago.<\/p>\n

Many at home and around the world still call South Sudan \u2013 southern Sudan. Dr Adwok says South Sudanese spend time in political quarrels and war rather than thinking and talking about themselves.<\/p>\n

The former Minister of Higher Education describes the calling of the country as southern Sudan as funny. \u201cYes, we have a country, and this is one of our failures we are still called southern Sudan which is a geographical name,\u201d said Dr Adwok.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is funny in a way, we don\u2019t have a name for ourselves, because this would be our identity. So, if we are southern Sudanese, what is southern Sudanese,\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is partly because, during the transitional period, from 2011 to 2015, we spent it in political quarrels, then civil war.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were not even thinking about ourselves, now we are in a different situation, where we are not even talking to ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof. Adwok says the Anya-nya had its anthem, flag, and a coat of arms things which were lacking in SPLM. \u201cLook at our national anthem it is not what our people were struggling for,\u201d Prof. Adowk said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Anya-nya had an anthem, they had a flag, they had a national coat of arms, a Rhino, a Shoebill, and this bird of Bahr el Ghazal. Rhino represented Equatoria, Shoebill for Bahr el Ghazal, and Shield for Upper Nile, and we just threw these things away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were things that were used by the Anya-nya as part of our struggle, to raise awareness and define our identity.\u201d Prof. Adwok further stated that the Anya-Nya movement was more organized than the SPLM.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy personal experience is that the Anya-nya had a good relationship with the people. In that, they got all the resources from the people. They have no reason to abuse the people, this is unlike the SPLM\/SPLA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverywhere SPLA went there was always there is a problem, and there was documented, there are books written.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof Adwok is the author of The Politics of Liberation in South Sudan: An Insider\u2019s View, Fountain Publishers, Kampala (1997), a Noma Award-winning title for publishing in Africa (1998).<\/p>\n

He has since authored South Sudan: The State We Aspire to (2010), South Sudan: The Crisis of Infancy (2014) and South Sudan: Elites, Ethnicity, Endless Wars and the Stunted State (2019).<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About South-Sudan<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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