Wiped out by Gonorea.

You only have to go through history to realize how wicked (and sick in the head) the white man is. What really shocked me is that the white man used to distribute small pox infested blankets to indigenous tribes in Australia, south america, US etc to deliberately infect them with disease and kill them. The whites would also rape women and girls to deliberately infect them with syphilis which had no cure at the time. This would lead to whole communities being infected by the diseases. In namibia when the local communities resisted colonisation, they were chased into the desert by the german colonisers and the water wells were poisoned. And 80% of the population was killed.

prosperity my tiny black a**, Native americans score least on all indicators (except the health index where the come 2nd last after our brodas) in the U.S. http://ssrc-static.s3.am...moa/A_Century_Apart.pdf

Has it ever occurred to you that they may be thinking that they are doing "right" in their own eyes? To a hammer every problem looks like a nail and it's not just "waafrika". Nimeona wazungu in some balkan countries you cannot find on the map doing EXACTLY THE SAME THINGS. It's about exposure... and when that exposure happened. and plus... as it happened in the fable about belling a cat, the words of the old rat ring here

Politics seems simple right? please note - I didn't say Easy I said Simple. Well it's not. Not in a setting of 60 indigenous ethnic groups and 80 linguistic partitions. Some larger than others and militant. With histories of clashing over land and pastures (think Pokomo and Orma type clashes at a macro level) with external dirty fingers of Arabs, Ethiopians, Ugandans, Kenyans and South Africans in the mix funding alternative centers of power by dream selling and placing an enemy in the narrative. There is a video by Garang somewhere talking about how ethnic groups are set against each other as counter-insurgent moves in the sudan from places like Khartom. Believe me when I say this - its a complex thing happening there in S.S. I can tell you for a fact that right now... Kiir and Machar are not in control of the sides they are purportedly heading. It's not simple and it's not easy - plus there guys who look at that place and say.. why did we fight the war? we need to be compensated. it's crazy any way - it's easy for us to prescribe solutions in blanket statements coz someone elses business is always easier that yours. I once flew over the Sudan saw the utter ruralness, the utter remoteness of that place. When I saw some mud huts nikaambiwa tumefika... The Airfields are grazing lands, where bells ring and people stop and as soon as a plane lands they are allowed to continue with their business. I saw a guy wait and as soon as a plane landed... he took off with this bike - kama kawaida. The airport was a single building with 2 rooms... one was VIP lounge and another was shared between the civil airoport authority and the airline's. Kupima mizigo ratili kama ile ya mahindi inatoewa and zinapimwa kwa nyasi. crazy... A whole state capital running on solar not a paved road in place. Umewahi ona round-about kwa barabara ya maruum? this was the capital of a state the size of coast province. Not a tarmac road in sight. Have you ever heard of the term "Africa - the dark continent"?... well - that place is a contributing factor to that narrative. I just decided watu wako mbali.... and stopped thinking i have solutions for them. Anyway - I once decided that I would stop thinking I have ideas for other people's issues and focus on mine (simple but not easy) and thus nimeruka nje - kazi ya kufanya S.S. work ni ya akina Kiir and Machar and Troika and anyone else who thinks they have leverage (stick and carrot) to make that place work. The only hope is that time is not running out... we are a blip in the existence of the universe. Not everything has to be right today or even in 100 years.

Very well said Masukuma. Just to add to that on the issue that Obi raises of "The consequences for their actions are there for all to see including them." This is at the heart of what makes any human relations difficult and politics as complex as it is. Just try one day after an argument with your spouse or girlfriend wait a day or two when things have cooled down and try to revisit the issue at hand and see how differently you will recall what the problem was. Chances are you may end up having the argument all over again as you try to correct each others obviously wrong point of view. Now in a country with millions of individuals there is nothing that is obvious even when they see the same thing it is interpreted in millions of different ways.

I once watched an interview of the late Ezekiel Barng'etuny that he gave a short time before he passed away. In his view the greatest president Kenya ever had was Daniel Toroitich arap Moi. Listening to him I could not disagree because from his point of view there could never have been a president who would have affected his life as positively as Moi did. He knew him personally from childhood and he could see how his situation and the people he knew had benefited during Moi's presidency. I can only imagine that leaders such as Kiir and Machar are surrounded by Barngetunys who assure them that they are on the right path and they are the best in the world.

Ah.. but you are not in the same class! that's the point! this class does not exist. Each nation is in it's own class and there is no curriculum. the settings of each student are different. Some settings may look similar but as soon as you scratch the surface you realise they are not. and then it's a continuum. some people did what you are doing in 'class 1' 500 years ago, some did it 276 years ago - some have not! some found themselves in class 2 but in a different context with their own challenges. Which country can south sudan copy from? right? this country needs to have the following (from the top of my head conditions)
1)+50 ethnic groups and interests
2) 60 years of civil war
3) thick and remoteness and low population density
4) a 27% literacy level having 70% of the people between 6-17 years having not been in school
5) The people you can rely on are the educated elite that all have 2 or more passports and have tasted a better life outside.
6) internal distrust among it's people due to historical events
7) a landlocked nation whose only source of income is oil (98% of revenue comes from that black substance). <--- from which a neighbouring country deducts $25 a barrel for 'transit' and sometimes is literally stolen.
8) other centers of power cropping up (Somalia style) in forms of generals who do as they please since they fought a war against the arabs and "won". The army consumes 40% of the budget
9) Majority of all the employed people are employed as soldiers by the way and salaries take up about 90% of the gava expenditure.

Heck... the country does not even have working ATMs. ukitoka hapa - uende kama umejipanga!! it's easy to propose solutions when you think everyone is in the same class....but people are not!

@Obi has a valid point. All nation states are in one class by virtue of polity. All nation states are presumed to be competent enough for self rule and determination and have a vast back up of traditions and laws that extend beyond each existing state.

This places the burden of critical thinking on leaders of any state and its citizens. When leaders and citizens fail to take up their duties then we can say that they are being reckless or negligent.

Different schools but same class. Whether one is in the most prestigious or most run-down school all face the same things. For example, when better technology comes along, SS will not say (corporately or individually), since we are not at par with others we will not use those satellite dishes and iphones and apps etc. If they ever say that I want to know.

They cannot wish to have and use and own contemporary conveniences but if requested to change their behaviours and destructive inclinations they say leave us alone. They can make themselves look foolish.

They fought and then they voted for independence so that they could "develop". Are they doing what they hoped they will do? Are they "developing"?

If they are not they need to do something about it.

Masukuma is slowly becoming tycho!