WHERE IS THIS OLD MAN CALLED BOR?
WHERE IS THIS OLD MAN CALLED BOR? [Target audience: Communities in the current Jonglei State] We, Dinka Bor (Jieeng of Jonglei) are like twenty wives of a poly gamous Jieeng paramount chief. When there is a big occasion where the paramount chief would serve as the guest of honor, the twenty wives were the happiest among the village crowd. The master of ceremony will cheerfully and gracefully introduce their names to the public [as diaar ke bany-chief’s wives] as each one of them waves the cheering audience with a smile that lasts only in that occasion. After the ceremony, they return to their respective lonely and boring huts where the paramount chief is seen to visit each of them occasionally during childbirth, funerals, daughter’s marriage, meal-times or occasionally when such community gatherings crop up again. We hate the name Bor to the core and we have been manipulating and fighting ourselves over it for quite sometime now but our respective problems such as poverty, illiter...