South Sudanese Intellectuals Have Fallen Short to Match the Critical Demands of Our Time (Part 3)

The learned are out of their home: The intellectual courage of our most learned South Sudanese has fallen short to match the demands of our time

By Thiik Mou Giir, Melbourne, Australia

Monday, July 05, 2021 (PW) — The chiefs and the elders are no longer the main personalities who are running the affairs of South Sudanese. Their status has become peripheral in the society. The learned now are the ones who have taken up the role of the chiefs and the elders and have turned that role into something else, something in which evil and goodness intertwine. 

People cannot reject evil because it intertwines with that which is good. People need what is good, money for example. The problem with money, though, is, as the saying goes, “Love of money is the root of all evil”.  That is a powerful problem, more powerful than what our traditional currency in the form of cattle, goats and so on, once were.

The enemies of all Africans know very well that people in Africa love money, especially when they get it without doing any work. The enemies are using that weakness against Africans. The enemies of Africans also know that the learned are the ones who are standing between them and the sources whereby they themselves can get money. 

They use the learned to secure African natural resources. After they get what they want, they then take the lion share; give the learned in positions of authority some crumbs, and the ordinary people get almost nothing. The multinational corporations are running African countries dry with the assistance of some local, learned citizens, in this way.

African people have no will to fight the enemies off their backs because they have not understood the game and they have a need to depend on their enemies’ handouts (charity).  This need has already been created through foreign cultures and traditions that are replacing our own cultures and traditions. 

Furthermore, the enemies are also using divide-and-rule policy to secure those lucrative natural resources. It is a terrible game that has killed thousands of Africans.

The game is like a horse-race game. In the horse-race business, are horses’ owners, horses’ riders, and spectators. The only people that the spectators do not see are the horses’ owners. The horses’ owners and horses’ riders have their own secret plans and their own secret deals that the spectators know nothing about. 

During the horse-race, the spectators go wild and loud and some of them engage in betting in support of their horse, hoping that their horse would win a trophy and they will get something in return.

Likewise, Africans partake in the game, even though they have not understood the game, even though the game is killing hundreds and hundreds of their own people, their own brothers, and sisters. 

They are the spectators that have gone wild and loud and, when one says, ‘stop the war…you are destroying yourselves…you are being tricked into fighting each other,’ they ignore you and think of you weird or crazy person. 

And so, each member of a tribe supports a horse-rider, a learned leader, who belongs to a certain tribe.  The learned rider, or rather a leader, have had his horse wrapped with catchwords, “DEMOCRACY; FREEDOM”.  The war situation thus created results in a call for foreign sympathy and foreign aides. 

Individuals, from international communities, who go to Africa pretending to be helping Africans do not love Africans at all; some of them are the ones who create war situations in the first place to give them reason to go to any African country without any suspicion and then they run that country dry. 

An act that looks like an act of kindness is the same act that will eventually kill you.

Thiik Mou Giir, Bachelor Degree in Education from the University of Alexandria, Egypt; Post Graduate Diploma, from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He can be reached via his email contact: thiik_giir@hotmail.com

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