The History of Murle Migrations
2 min readThe History of Murle Migrations and Interaction with the Nuer, the Anyuak and the Dinka
http://www.cmi.no/file/1964-Murle.pdf
I am always perplex by South Sudanese oral stories/legends/myths recorded by foreigners. It is funny how foreigners write about the Dinka, the Nuer, the Murle etc. without verifying the same stories from the other side of the aisle.
It is like asking Dr. Lam Akol about the 1991 coup and take that one-sided narration as the gospel truth when others, say the SPLM/A mainstream or even Dr. Riek after his separation with Dr. Lam, have a different take on the very event. It is like asking Khartoum about the Panthou/Heglig’s crisis forgetting that Juba has a totally different view of the event.
So why do the historians…especially the Anthro-historians…do it knowing very well that they are literally recording filtered stories in which the narrator exaggerate their successes while airbrushing their failings?
Though they all participated in the 2nd WW as allies, ask the Russians about WWII and they will tell you a different story from that told by either the British or the Americans. It is a different matter altogether if you go to the Neo-Nazists and ask them about the wars.
By PaanLuel Wel.
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