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We are the future we can be

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I was again made to recall my past - but not just my past but our past, the past of the majority of my friends, colleagues, brothers and sisters - the past of the life we led during those days, when we were bush school kids.  In order to communicate my happiness, I had to re-register the blog I de-registered in 2013, when the political crisis overtook reason and South Sudanese-ness that we once celebrated.  This recall to my past happened when Hon Taban Abel has this to write on his Facebook Timeline.  He said:   "Yesterday, I paid a visit to my friend, a prominent media personality in Juba, Editor in Chief of The Dawn Newspaper  Emmanuel Monychol Akop  in his office. Monychol has been of serious service to our country. May God bless him in all his endeavors." He is right. Taban And I are the product of a once powerful bush school, where we were taught to understand that in this world, only young people with the knowledge and the right attit...