Lamentations from the Heart: LAMENTATIONS OF A NUBA

2011 FREEDOM IS COMING SOON !!! 25th DEATH ANNIVERSARY

Monday, February 10, 2014

LAMENTATIONS OF A NUBA

By JAH!

I am not the same me

Long long time ago

We had a Kingdom, kings, Queen’s,

Princess and Princes.

The Nubian Kingdom

Of Cush Extending

From Mamphes halfa

Dungala Kadugal

Talodi Drilling

As far as swears

We had great kings

And paramount chiefs

Tirarga-Tirahaga

Tut Ankh Amon

Amon Raa -Faki Ali

Sultan Ajaban – Al mak Rahhal

Sir Mohamed Rahhal

We are a proud

Strong brave people

Our ancestors conquered

Defeated and fought gallantly against

Our enslavement

Our civilization dates

Back to the 6^th century.

Our gallant

Soldiers and generals

Defeated the colonialists

At Omdurman

Defeated the Egyptians

We mistreating horses

Fought wars in Libya

East Africa

And Asia

But are never remembered

Nor honoured.

Forgotten warriors

Our deep rooted cultures customs and traditions

Are systemically destroyed

And merciless up rooted

By ethic cleansing.

Organized genocide

Our people

Disorganized

Displaced

Scattered

Dehumanized

Humiliated

Enslaved

Sold into slavery

And our land occupied.

Our once powerful kingdom

Subjugated

Subsumed

Reduced

To rubble's

To nothing less

Destruction of our heritage

Is to destroy the past

So that the future is bleat

Unknown untraceable

No history

Only tales

Those are below

Away by the wind.

Squatters

In our own country

I cry to Africa

We are subjects

But not objects

Subservient

Slave laborers

In our own kingdom

From kings

To slaves

Laughing stocks

To day we are

Our inheritance

Sized by aliens

Our beloved land

By forgives

I cry to Africa

I cry to the world.

Thos are my passionate

Expression of our grief’s

From my dejected spirit.

By Latio Lo Jaden

May /28/1995

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Brief Life History of the late Richard Latio Lo'Jaden

Richard was born on 5^th Novermber 1947 at Round Loka, in the Southern Sudan province of Equatoria in Yei District,to Mr.Aggrey Jaden Luwani and Mama Sarah Rejah Lopuru. He started his early primary schooling at Juba 1 Primary School. Due to the nature of his father’s ‘ work he also had an opportunity to school at Torit, Malakal, Al Fasher(in Dafur).When he finished his primary schooling he was to be admitted to secondary school as he was also one of the top twenty students in Juba but to his surprise he was rejected and instead admitted to a MAHHADS(a Muslim training centre to be taught Islam to become a Muslim teacher for the KHALWAS Islamic schools).The school administration had earlier on tried to convert the whole school system to Muslims by handing each a Koran and giving them Muslim names. But due to the resistance to this and their boycotting of school and until the system was changed.

When he father learnt of this he advised him to stay out of school which he did until he resumed at the age of 15 years.By 1958 Aggrey had fallen out with the Government due to several factors and had been sacked as an Administrator and placed under house arrest. He had also been informed by the then Government that non of his children would be educated lease they been as “hard headed” as he was.

In 1960 Aggrey and his colleagues(the group of eight) decided to flee Sudan and go into exile in Uganda. The following year Aggrey sent for his family who then joined him. Richard then resumed his schooling in Kampala at EDELVALE PRIMARY SCHOOL, he had to start learning from scratch again as he had been schooled in Arabic. So at the age of 15 years he started learning English.

He also attended Kibera Primary School, Eastleigh Secondary School and finally Animal Health Institute (A.H.I.T.I.) Kabete, Kenya where he studied Animal Health and Range Management.Richard worked there after for various organisations,got involved in politics and twice had to be smuggled from Sudan due to death threats.In 1983 he was involved in the formation of the short lived "THE UNITIED MOVEMENT FOR THE TOTAL LIBERATION OF SOUTHERN SUDAN" UMTLSS.Which led to his final exiling to Zaire and susquently to Uganda.

He fell ill in Kampala in October of 1996 and passed away in Mulago Hospital.May the almighty rest his soul in peace.

For a person who learnt English at age 15 he became a profilic reader and writer of the language.

Poems written by the late Richard Latio Lo' Jaden

These are a collection of poems written by the late Richard between 1972 to 1996 during the period of liberation of the South from the yoke of Arab colonialism.There is a collection of almost two hundred poems that will be published on this blog site.
Most of the poems had already been published on the "UPDATE"(SPLM/SPLA quaterly newsletter)produced during the early 1990's .Some of the poems have also been published in the book"An Introduction to the Resistance Poetry" by Korbandy Kodis ,who describes the late's poems as pure Negritude especially the attention he gives in articulation of the black consciousness. Most of the poems are really his lamentations from the heart and mostly describe his inner thoughts and feelings.
Richard had always dreamt of having his poems published in a book form.As a mark of respect and to fulfill his wishes the rest of the family have thought of publishing the poems in a blog form for prosperity.As you will realiase most of the poems were written following real events either in the war zone or where Richard was living then.

Lamentations from the Heart

2011 FREEDOM IS COMING SOON !!! 25th DEATH ANNIVERSARY

Monday, February 10, 2014

LAMENTATIONS OF A NUBA

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