THE CLOSING STATEMENTS

A collection of Open-editorials spanning more than ten years, uncovering intricacies of developing journalism in the process, highlighting trials of freedom of speech and muddling with sad realities.

Chapters

• Dancing To Kampala Songs
• An Equatorian response
• Journey to Southern Sudan's independence
• Right to dissent earns treason in a frail leadersh..
• Something to laugh about
• Southern Independence and FEDERALISM
• “You cannot see the forest before the trees”
• Eight No Agreements Signed in Addis
• Our stone wall-of-liberation harder than most
• Infestation of national recruitment policies
• SPLA Defectors: the ‘Trojan Horse’ Plan
• Can South Sudanese really find a unifying national..
• Only creative artists muster making gov’t deals
• Our wars are elite, but the fighters can’t tell
• Memoirs of arrest for reporting in parliament
• IGAD led peace talks are Juba felt peace jokes
• Lessons on reconfiguring the federalism debate
• Tyranny of the weak will produce our new dictato..
• Frailty of citizen’ right to dissent in our frai..
• Casing for Petroleum Sector Local Content Policy
• Can IGAD indoctrinate us with a politics of ethics..
• The politics of diseases and their cures
• A dead patient at an operation table
• Ebola and Politics are like the warring parties
• Something is going to fall like rain
• Oil shortages in oil producing countries is not Ro..
• Understanding our leaders are keys to peace or wa..
• Read 1984, before a nation of sheep emerges
• Are we ready for a female dictatorial President?
• War reporting has its joys, but don’t get killed
• Time to pack our rags and swim as refugees
• Another page in the oil curse story
• When Western tribalism/racism is more endemic than..
• When shall our legislators fight for their people?
• In politics there are no permanent enemies, just i..
• Journalism’s rat race must end
• More about our killers; civilian or military
• In 2015, let us insult presidents as they insult u..