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THE YOUNG MAN WHO FOUND WHAT HAS BEEN MISSING IN HIS COMMUNITY

MAN OF THE PEOPLE is a realistic story written by Madhol A Bol know as Jeremiah Madhol Ater. The book describes how different communities have been having bitter rivalry for years due to land ownership and livestock issues. The author details how these two communities have been engaging in wars over the years as the generations come and go but never have they managed to come together to find a long-lasting peace until the time a young man was born. A man was born by two parents who came from these two different rival communities who happened to have married each other when the two communities had a short peace that was cut short again due to some reasons related to their unending rivalry. Despite the challenges from both sides who never wanted to come together, the young man managed to bring the two communities together. He sacrificed and dedicated himself although his life was almost being terminated by the people who never wanted peace to come over the land, as a dedicated man, he managed to achieve his goal. The book is based on non-fiction and it clearly conveys the true image of most of the South Sudanese communities and other African communities who undergo the same experience as explained in the MAN OF THE PEOPLE. The theme of the book is how societies put their interests over the common values that bring them together as a society. Moreover, we also see how one person who cares more about the peaceful co-existence of the society sacrifices to ensure that the differences do not burn the society. There is also a clear indication of how people focus on the past, find ways to ensure that they avenge what was done to them in the past few and not think about what the future has for them. They do go ahead to oppose people who want the best for the community to satisfy their interests. These are what we see in the society we see today and people; like Luong are always there to ensure that things happen the way we want them to be but we never support them, instead, we turn against them.

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THE ORIGIN OF TWO GREAT LIONS

A thousand years ago, the two large communities of Ucholo and Geer dominated the northwestern half of the Laar, a land that was said to have gone through a lot before gaining independence. The two groups were pastoralists before the arrival of colonizers, spending much of their time tending animals and practising small-scale farming. The two sisters societies are thought to have shared a single ancestor and have much in common. This can be seen in their cultural identities, among other things. They only differ in terms of the languages they speak, despite the fact that many common expressions have the same sound and meaning. Polygamy marriage was practised in both groups, with a man having up to fifty wives depending on his ability to manage such a large family. They practise up to today initiation methodologies for both boys and girls. The boys' foreheads are marked, and they place some marks on the ladies' faces. These activities represented the beginning of the transition from childhood to adulthood. There are many more fascinating cultural customs that these two large communities share in common. Wife inheritance is one of these rituals, among many others. Their lifestyles are ideally similar to those of other traditional African societies. The two groups were split after colonisation, albeit they were still scattered within the same region. Geer travelled to the far west in quest of a greener pasture for their livestock, and Ucholo moved to the far west after the invaders took over their homeland. The two communities had maintained their original land for around a hundred years. Still, they only did so on a regular basis as they moved to the pasture fields, and it eventually came to a point where they lost the land entirely to the colonizers when the war broke out between them, the natives, and the invaders.

Ucholo was obliged to stay in the northern section, while Geer was forced to stay in the western part. The two communities never had a direct relationship with the colonizers' administration; instead, they had to rely on other communities from the East who had developed strong ties with the colonial administration and had taken over the administration when the country gained independence because the landowners were still in exile.

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