South Sudan's English Daily Newspaper
"We Dare where others fear"
The Divinity of Deng and tragedy of Ngundeng’s spiritual emblem (däng): in whose interest does the experiences of our ancestors divide us?
Many things beckoned my attention in 2020 when I visited the UN Protection of Civilians (POC) sites around Juba, but the most compelling of which was uncommon tenderness which I received from a little girl named Nyaviva (Nya+Viva). This amazing child grasped my hand as friends and I were walking through the camp. I knelt down and did all I could to speak to her in my rustic Thoknaath, and after the introduction, I was taken aback by the fact that one of factors underlying her continues stay in the POC camp would come to bear her name.
