PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd – South Sudan

"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.

Songs from (South) Sudan

They danced on their chains

Laughed at the merchant’s gains

Like birds of the sky

Did not believe in the lie

That shackles are cages

To men as for birds

Measure steps and limit space.

Across the desert they walked

Their way to an unknown world

Bemused the master’s son

With wits of humorous souls

That could never be caged

And battle songs from Sudan

Which spoke of days ahead

Rains and shines…they sang

Shall pass as testaments to times

When the slavery yoke will crumble

And a new age of freedom begins.

Mayen Ayarbior, Ifo (Kenya), 1996

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