The Rust of Words ( a Novel )
2 min readBy David Aoloch Bion
Synopsis of the book
The Rust of Words is the story of reforms and transformation from bad governance to good governance in the Republic of Sudd. It is the story of poet James Majok , who inspired Uncle Josef , the Chief Servant of the Republic , to reform and transform his corrupted, dysfunctional system of governance.
Billions of dollars from oil revenues were stolen by 75 servants from public funds in the period of six years.
As the result of such embezzlement of fund, there were no roads, schools, hospitals across the country. Worse of, the country imported food from neighbouring countries.
An inspiration of reform comes to Uncle Josef, when Majok reads the poem on the 7th anniversary of independence. The poem indicted Uncle Josef and his Administration
In his response to the poem, Uncle Josef begins the needed reforms. In the series of reforms, the corrupt ministers in the government were arrested, tried and executed for corruption.
Uncle Josef justified his action by saying he was following what is written in the book , a book which was not seen by anyone since it publication but he harangues that every citizen must read it .
In order to purified the rusted thought of the people. He formed a committee of 600 intellectuals, led by the state Philosopher Peter Gatluak, to modify the language, they invent new words to purify the language in order to purify the thought of the people and many rusted words in the language were destroyed.
70 years later, after the radical reforms, the society becomes just, prosperous. There was no man or woman committing a crime,
As the result, the Republic abolished department of police and the faculties of Law at all Universities across the country because they become irrelevant in the just society.
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