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In this episode, Engineer Kazi Yogusuk, is exploring the importance of cow or cattle in the Bari tribe. traditionally cows or cattle means wealth or status , which defines how much the bridegroom( male) paid to the family of a bride( female) in term of dowry also can be use as an equivalent for any settlement. 

The Marks on the cow or cattle has their names which distinguish each one of them. the Bari used a cow or cattle as meat their skin also have many uses which can be use for sleeping, chair, drums etc. 

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr . is an american professional actor, theater producer and inspirational speaker, raised by a single mother after his parents divorced. In his professional job as an actor, film and theater producer, he received a many nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.  

Washington is a family man, married to Pauletta Pearson. They have four children. In 1995, Washington and his wife renewed their wedding vows in South Africa with Desmond Tutu officiating.

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Azim Khamisa is an author,a social, peace activist,a thoughtful leader, and inspirational speaker.

 He earns his reputation after his 20-year-old son, Tariq, was gun down when he was delivering pizzas in January 1995 by Tony Hicks, a 14-year-old gang member, in a random act of gang violence. Out of unspeakable grief and despair, he was inspired to transform his loss through the miraculous power of forgiveness. Believing that there were “victims at both ends of the gun,” Azim forgave Tony and founded the Tariq Khamisa Foundation to break the

cycle of youth violence by saving lives, teaching peace, and planting seeds of hope in their future. One month after establishing the foundation, he invited Ples Felix, Tony’s grandfather and guardian, to join him. Together since November 1995, both men have reached half a million elementary, middle, and high school students and many more millions through social media, television, radio and print interviews, guiding the youth to choose a peacemaker’s life of non-violence and forgiveness.

Azim has given over 1,000 presentations to over a million students worldwide and has served as TKF's founder and chairperson for over 23 years. 

He is the author of four books and has been featured countless times in local, national and international media. In 2017.  

I was Able to meet Azim Khamisa in one of the Rotary international conference in Las Veges, I found out Azim was born in Kenya, Africa. and grow up in Uganda during Idda Amen and educated in England in mathematics. They were able to flew Uganda to USA in early seventy hoping to get a better education for their children.

He has over 45 years of experience as a successful international investment banker.

Azim provides an external business perspective to the governance and operations

of TKF. He has committed his life to halting the continuing cycle of violence among youth.

" Citizenship in Hard Times "  ....... it is a book by Sara Goodman, PhD

 Sara is an associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), where she is also co-Director of the Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD). Her research examines democratic inclusion and the shaping of political identity through citizenship and immigrant integration. She is the author of Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press). Her research is also published in Journal of Politics, World Politics, and Comparative Political Studies.

What do citizens do in times of democratic crisis? When democracy is under threat, do everyday citizens activate and mobilize, or do they hunker down, demobilize, and express greater support for homogeneity (like speaking English)? Scholars, pundits and policy experts have largely focused on elite behavior and institutional guardrails, but the citizenry is a foundation to any story about democracy under threat. This book is the first to examine civic obligation in unsettled democratic times from the perspective of citizens themselves. It employs a three-country study of the US, UK, and Germany, to examine how democratic citizens define obligation and for whom, comparing native-born and naturalized citizens. Findings highlight the importance of how democratic problems are framed, and puts forward a number of policy prescriptions for overhauling civic education.

General Ladu Gore Calling for a Generation Shift 

Who is Ladu Gore ?

Lieutenant General Ladu Gore is the son and the elder of the Bari community in South Sudan. He fought two civil wars, one under the leadership of General Joseph Lagu, the leader of Anya-nya 1 namely deadly poison that erupted on 18 August 1955 against the Northern Sudan and the second was under the leadership of Dr. John Garage in 1983 which led to the independence of South Sudan. He fought to the death to rescue South Sudan from the Arabization and Islamic domination. He was always looking about changing people’s lives for the better.

He is a citizen of the world and he believes in the skills and the experiences of the South Sudan Diaspora in developing South Sudan. He fought to protect the Bari land and seek the better solution for the land distributions that benefit the vast majority of the people of South Sudan. 

Without a doubt Ladu Gore cares very deeply about the people of South Sudan and the rest of Africa. Speaking to the Bari Youth, Lieutenant General Ladu Gore emphasizes the importance of the community organization and the unity of the Bari people to let the young ambitious generation lead the community.

Bari anthem.

Nan ñyañyar tokitakindya Bari,

Nan ñyañyar yiŋga kulya ti Bari,

Nan ñyañyar jambu kulya ti Bari.

"Ko gwon nan a Barinit"

Nan ñyañyar tokujö karine ti Bari, Kwörinit ko gurut ko yeyesi kwe liŋ,

Nan tiñyar tolikin karine ti Bari,

"Ko gwon nan a Barinit"

Nan ñyañyar köju karine ti Bari,

Nan ñyañyar tuwan ko kujöŋ ti Bari,

Nan ñyañyar morja karine ti Bari,

"Ko gwon nan a Barinit"

Nan ñyañyar morja karine ti Bari, Pöjolo, Mundari, Kuku, Ñyambara, Kakwa, ko kulye lo gwon ŋarju kutuk ko Bari,

"Ko gwon yi a Bari liŋ"

Togeleŋ na Bari a riŋit nikaŋ liŋ. (repeat 3 times).

"Ko gwon yi a Bari liŋ".

Togeleng na Bari a riŋit nikaŋ liŋ. (repeat 3 times).

"Ko gwon yi a Bari liŋ".

P.S.

The Author: Juba University Bari Students Cultural Association ( JUBSCA)

Composed By: Wani Savio , David Dogga Jada and others

Location: Khartoum, Sudan

Year: 2009