South Sudanese Youth: Prepare for Armageddon
3 min readBy Deng Lueth Yuang, Canada
June 7, 2015 (SSB) — Who is a Youth? ~ 25-55 years – age of a youth in Junubi context; ~ 18-35 – youth age in international context. By now, Junubin youths must be a worried lot by thinking of how their future will hold in such a precarious environment.
Wars annihilating them. Economic dependence making them unable to decide and walk their own future. Worsening economic circumstances making them unable to get families, leave alone raising meaningful ones.
Changing lifestyles of our times making them adopt modernism and behave like those independent big-bellied old men and women. Everything is within reach – from alcohol to sex — hmm, why not behave like mums and dads who are enjoying their old age life after working hard & so much all these years getting and raising them!
But all in all, we gotta be careful. We live in another man’s country! A senile nation of gerontocrats. Even though our parents are equivalent in age to these buffoonish elites, they are not their ordinary equivalence. Not welcome there!
We own no country, but a country of old men and women with ‘bellies’.
So, what does the future hold for us in this nation where our only occupation is taking up arms and butchering each other?
Which country are we sidelined from decision making once these wars we are fighting for and over end making us unwanted!? Hence, jobless.
We must think twice. We are no longer children of tomorrow, but NOW. It’s our time to be plants, not seeds of this beautiful nation.
The future is in our hand. Let’s think for ourselves and speak to our pot-bellied Uncles, Dads or Moms and tell them, it is our time – our future now. Nothing less.
Their sun has set already! Our Sun is risen!||
Email – denglueth@ymail.com
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