Juba, the capital of South Sudan, will soon be transformed from a dirty slum into a modern city in the shape of a rhinoceros. Wau, another large city, will take the shape of a giraffe. The world’s newest nation is moving forward with these innovative changes, although it is just emerging from a bloody and troubling recent history. After 56 years of fighting, South Sudan is finally free from the government of North Sudan. As a new country, it struggles—resembling the way the boys struggled in Golding’s The Lord of the Flies. The stories of Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir Mayardit in Sudan and Ralph, Jack, and Piggy in the novel illustrate what happens when a civilization decays. When the order in society collapses, smaller self-governing groups emerge because of fundamental human differences, as the allegory of The Lord of the Flies shows in Sudan.
Great Britain and Egypt jointly ruled “The Soudan” from 1898 until 1954. With English help, the new Sudanese parliament drafted a provisional constitution and achieved independence; however, the new peace was short-lived, as the new Arab-led government reneged on promises of a federal system. General Ibrahim Abboud seized power in 1958 and led the country towards Arabization and Islamicization. These actions angered the predominantly Christian and animist South. Later, in 1971, a communist party rebelled and tried to overthrow Jaafar Numeiri, who came to rule after a military coup. The Addis Ababa Peace Agreement of 1972 between the Sudan government and the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement ended the First Civil War. When President Gaafar Nimeiry violated the agreement by seizing valuable oil fields, the Second Civil War broke out in 1983. For the next 22 years, rebel groups fought in ...
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...n its own” (Hamilton). More countries must support the struggling new nation. Now that the two Sudanese ethnic groups are governed separately, hopefully the order will not collapse, but solidify. If not, the story of South Sudan could end like The Lord of the Flies, a hopeless mess of inflated egos. Hopefully, though, the result will be two improved nations—North Sudan and South Sudan.
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