Weakleaks! studio.opera.com By Jon Pen de Ngong Leaders of 350 out of 900 South Sudanese students who are studying at Kampala University, Juba branch, have dragged the university to court for blocking them… Continue reading
This story was rejected by Opera Hub for reasons best known to them. Faithbook studio.opera.com The forehead marks in this cartoon that brought uproar against Elon’s tweet are exclusively found with South Sudanese… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong According to the hot exchange of ‘letters of cancellation and conciliation’ of wrestling between Jonglei and Central Equatoria states, the lead question to indirectly and creatively answer here… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong O Dear People of ‘Borusalem’! This letter comes to you in the morning of a Good Friday. Oh yes, there is a enough reason for this! This is… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong The book being partly prose and partly poetry, I can also import for you from one of my WhatsApp comments the following on land dispute issues… Hon. Atem,… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong Are you missing The SPLA Update? The Sudan Mirror? And those good old days…? When we were enjoying our peace in war? Where the man standing with the… Continue reading
Your Worship: The Lord Mayor, As I write this letter, there is a soldier standing in front of your office. He is knocking at the right door but in the wrong hour! He… Continue reading
WHAT I TOLD DR. RIEK MACHAR WHEN HE ASKED ME TO ‘GO TO JUBA’… ‘July 10, 2018: Khartoum, Sudan’ After a 2-hour waiting and wading through a long queue of hundreds of ‘meeters’… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong Dear Fellow Parent, Do you see PG-11, 13, 16, 18, etc. on the upper corner of your TV screen? Do you know what that means? Well, as the… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong Dear Anti-Christ Activists, As a practising Christian, who knows about the importance of the values of Christianity in particular and religion in general in shaping our chaotic nation,… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong While Kenyans have presented enough reasons, including ‘al-Shabaabism’, for closing down Somali refugee camps in their country, they are yet to come up with enough on why South… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong Robert Alai, a Kenyan popular but controversial blogger, took a picture of a car belonging to South Sudan embassy on a Nairobi street and tweeted very undiplomatic words… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong After this election bravado, bravo (Maburukat) to brother, Dr. Bior Kuer Bior and his team, for eventually clutching the mantle of Bor County youth leadership. It has been… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong In this Egyptian-sponsored news piece, Al-Sisi to Hamdok be like: Don’t worry about our need for more waters from the Blue Nile as GERD will not be filled… Continue reading
By Jon Pen I have not ever talked to you, have I? I do not know you, do I? You do not know me, do you? We only hear about each other on… Continue reading
Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit, the President of South Sudan, is sycophantly cordoned off by political and economic snipers, who are skilled to kill by shooting first and aiming later. So, I have no… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong Hi Folks, this is what I got for your flavoured read this time. Presumably some incoming questions in the 4th Year’s, or so, final exam, April 2021…. CIVIC… Continue reading
South Sudan is no longer a coronavirus-free territory. Today, April 5, 2020, the world’s youngest nation announced its first case of COVID-19 virus since it broke out in the Wuhan City of Hubei… Continue reading
Today, 21st day of March, 2020, marks the 21st anniversary of the World Poetry Day. According to available data, the World Poetry Day is held each year on March 21 to celebrate “the… Continue reading
(As verbally but fictitiously dictated to Jon Pen on phone) My Dear Daughter, I am writing to kindly request you. Please, don’t show up at your workstation tonight. I say, don’t appear, at… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong For those asking me about the meaning or context of my hashtag of #FakeryFuckery, it’s like when the University of Juba suspended Prof. Lo Liyong on February 10,… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong ‘Making America Regret Again’ will be the new moniker if Donald Trump wins the election again. So far, America is now a laughing stock. The mighty nation on… Continue reading
By Jon Pen This time I went sleepless overnight on the Peace Implementation worries, but not for the national reason as usual. This now be personal. I want peace for my own use.… Continue reading
By Jon Pen Corona Virus Comes hot; not in a Corona or Corolla car, it comes in an aeroplane. The virus is a very VIP one! It boards a Business Class. So what… Continue reading
Writer, Journalist, Political Commentator, Critic, Civil Activist, Teacher and Poet, John Penn de Ngong; is actively engaged in writing poetry that educate the masses of our people, politically, socially, spiritually, faithfully and poetically.… Continue reading
Dear Text Payer, Merry Christmas greetings to you in the name of God, and the South Sudanese and African readership. Am’in! This festive season, I challenge you to read us or read with… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong The following are conspiracy theories being peddled in the public arena on what transpired between Prophet T.B. Joshua and President S.K. ‘Joshua’ (Kiir Mayardit). Check which one is… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong They were born and grown up in the sudd (floating island). They are aspiring to manufacture one out of clay and float it on their ‘village ocean’ like… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong Armed with a syringe and needle loaded with a painkiller injectable, every minute, the self-nursing Namakula Annet, 27, would pierce around to numb an open deep and… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong No! He is not. And he is the one answering you as follows in the grammar of a ‘First Person Singular’ and Direct Speech. I have suffered from… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong Kudos to whoever set up this developmental symbol, the completion and inauguration of the Eagle House. Is it the Army Headquarters (Giyada) or Ministry of Defence? I wrote… Continue reading
By Jon Pen Yesterday, a friend passing over Kampala from the West was shocked to see a ‘Johnnie Hawker: Keep Hawking’, sweating in the sun with his self-published books. “What! Are you the… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong To my friends and relatives, who want me to graduate now and now by all costs, please, hold on. These days, one needs to prioritize not according to… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong This is what I meant… For those who might be interpreting my ‘Roam in Rome’ piece of analytical poetry otherwise, yes, I am for the ‘Spiritual Retreat’ but… Continue reading
By Jon Pen deNgong With President Omar al Bashir now down and the world awaiting ‘White Smoke’ from Khartoum, South Sudanese ‘holy picnicians’ on the Vatican Spiritual Retreat should not pretend that all… Continue reading
“Community nudity is no community commodity; stop it, stupid!” By Jon Pen de Ngong This is part of my Women’s Day messages. The theme for International Women’s Day 2019, which will take place… Continue reading
A Rebuttal For Our History Purification Of 10 Attempts On 20 Points Of Weston Wanjohi By Jon Pen de Ngong ‘Hon.’ Weston Wanjohi, a Kenyan MP-wannabe, who has christened himself ‘Friend of South… Continue reading
At dawn, today, February 11, 2019, somebody dreamt that she saw me with another man (from Nuer community) waving at people behind bars, actually a modern glassy, classy door. Were we in prison?… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong This testimony of mine…I am writing it not for damn records; not for incitement, nor for the purpose of Chapter 5 of RARCSS, or for the sheer fun… Continue reading
No, not me. JP is my neighbor, actually my landlord, whose kilometre-long road travels all the way from the main into his compound! So, Jon Pen (JP) is just a poor beneficiary by… Continue reading
By Jon Pen Like my Spiritized Friend, Immanuel J. Christ over His Best Day, I also felt so over mine — adored and adorned! In fact, I’m normally kind of embarrassed by openly… Continue reading
By Kur Garang Deng Dear readers, it has been a while without reading from each other on our beloved country’s history of liberation struggle, especially our fallen comrades. Since 1983, we have to… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong Having exhausted my 50 initial free gifts of the SPLM/A original Manifesto (July 31, 1983), thanks to Moulana Ajak Mayol Bior, Gurech Arem, Mayak Deng Aruei among few… Continue reading
BETRAYED BY JIENGLISH? ‘PARK YOU’! (VILLAGER INTERNATIONAL, ACT 1, SCENE 2) JUDGE: Why did you punch his teeth off? VILLAGER INTERNATIONAL (VIPee): Why he abuse me? JUDGE: How did he do that? VIPee:… Continue reading
By Jon Pen de Ngong Ten years ago, I found a good quote that explains the title of my book, ‘The Black Christs Of Africa’. The words are: “Above all, I am not… Continue reading
Ayom Makuei, a bright young lawyer who was shot in the head by ‘Unknown Gunmen’ of Juba, passed on on the eve of the much trumped up ‘Peace Celebration Day’. Of course, the… Continue reading
By Jon Pen It is probably the longest trending social agenda today. From South Sudan, East Africa and beyond, and as far as the United Nations headquarters, the name of Aluat Ngong Deng… Continue reading
By Jon Pen August 2, 2018, I chanced to sit down with Mr. Raila Odinga, a.k.a. Baba, for peace activism and some historical story-telling session in his Nairobi’s office at an area called… Continue reading
Jon Pen (Also on: http://www.aftaboss.wordpress.com) I am writing on the 60th day anniversary of Peter Biar Ajak’s arbitrary arrest and detention (28-09-2018). On the 28th of July 2018, Dr. Biar, a fellow activist,… Continue reading
By Jon Pen When your friend’s gift turns into a bomb! And the airport geeks be like those Greeks have manufactured a perfume grenade! I explained that it contained only sweet-smelling liquid, and… Continue reading
