Peter Adwok Nyaba - The Elephant

Sudan’s (Non-)Arab Spring: Lessons from the April 2019 and Other Uprisings

Analysis

Sudan’s (Non-)Arab Spring: Lessons from the April 2019 and Other Uprisings

April 25, 2019November 27, 2023

THE TIES THAT MAY NEVER BIND: Chasing the mirage of SPLM reunification

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THE TIES THAT MAY NEVER BIND: Chasing the mirage of SPLM reunification

July 20, 2018November 27, 2023

FISHING FOR FRIENDS: Salva Kiir’s cynical flirtation with regional bodies

Analysis

FISHING FOR FRIENDS: Salva Kiir’s cynical flirtation with regional bodies

April 12, 2018November 27, 2023

I define socio-political duplicity as the attitudes, behaviours and psychological syndromes that emerge from severe conditions of power asymmetry, which play out in political chicanery, backtracking on promises, political exclusion, economic marginalisation and social discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, language or gender, as well as in inferiority and superiority complexes. The socio-political duplicity of the South Sudanese political elite plays out these days as a dichotomised identity that underpins South Sudan’s traumatising predicament.

Analysis

Duplicitous Duality: Policies That Have Hampered South Sudan’s Transition to Statehood

March 23, 2018November 27, 2023

THE TROUBLE WITH SOUTH SUDAN: A revolution that ate its own children

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The Trouble With South Sudan: A Revolution That Ate Its Own Children

February 19, 2018November 27, 2023