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Renaissance Center Library, a public library in Juba (Radio Tamazuj photo) Yedjwok Agwet, is a cultural activist, translator and founder, and programs director at Renaissance Cultural Centre which also runs a public library in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. Radio Tamazuj caught up with and sounded him out about the reading culture, publishing inter alia in South Sudan. Following are edited excerpts from the conversation:  Q: What is the reading culture like in South Sudan as compared to the rest of the world? A: Internationally, the culture of reading is widespread, especially in the develo...

What’s new? In February 2020, South Sudan’s two main belligerents began forming a unity government pursuant to a peace deal inked a year and a half earlier. But the pact is fragile, smaller conflicts are still ablaze and the threat of return to full-blown civil war remains.  Why does it matter? Forthcoming elections could test the peace deal severely. Looking further ahead, conflict will continue to plague South Sudan until its leaders forge a political system that distributes power more widely. The cost of cyclical fighting since 2013 has been steep: hundreds of thousands dead and m...