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The Black Christs of Africa A Bible of Poems By J. Penn de Ngong Above all, I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen, British Poet Poem 22 petition for partition We, the auto-government of the Republic of Ruralia, Voicing the will of the democratic public of Ruralia, Are writing to your Theocratic Union of Urbania. Our grievances are on the following discontentment: Firstly, your purely autocratic Government of Urbania, Has solely dishonoured and condemned the document That we all signed – and codenamed – “Bible of Peace”. You’ve violated its gospel, the cause of our fatal disagreement; Wealth: You’re feeding our autonomous nation with ration apiece. In your annual tour, compare our city – Metropollutant – of Ruralia With its posh sister city of Urbania, proudly dubbed Metropolitania. All our resources, on our watching, are consumed up in Urbania. Our intellectuals and workforce are abundant but redundant. Henceforth, right here, we demarcate to be independent! You are busy strategizing to turn Ruralia into Somalia: Yourselves landlords, creating warlords, tribal militia, And bribing our politicians to speak out your voice, And turning our villages into large ghettos of slum, And our own towns into large cities of Islam. With these experiences, we’ve no choice, But t’ ask, demand, fight... for our voice. They oft’ say the end justifies the means, We, Ruralians, must reform all our ruins; The first option: thru the ballot, Last action: bullet! J. Penn de Ngong (John Ngong Alwong Alith as known in his family) came into this world on a day nobody knows. His father and mother, Alwong and Keth, did not know even their own birthdates, but his elder brother puts John’s between late 70s or early 80s. Born into Pen clan of Aboudit, Kolmarek Boma, Jalle Payam in Bor County of Jonglei state in Southern Sudan, at his early teen age in 1990, Ngong was among the thousands of unaccompanied minors referred to as Jesh Ahmr or ‘Red Army’, courtesy of the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Army/Movement. Like most of his colleagues, he became a ‘pupil-soldier and soldier-pupil’; juggling an AK 47 in his left hand with a pen in his right... Continue on pages VII, VIII & IX of this book.

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