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(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv) Sociologist Mary C. Waters of Harvard University paints a comprehensive and compelling picture of the immigrant experience in the United States. As the chair of a National Academy of Sciences report on immigration integration, Waters explains that while many aspects of immigrants’ lives improve over time and across generations, there are other significant challenges that remain. She highlights the key issues in this conversation with John Skrentny, the co-director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego.  Series: "Center for Comparative Immigration Studies 

The “Bari,” is a tribe from South Sudan living in the valley of the River Nile. Their main land spreads along the east and west banks of the Nile but also up to 40 miles away from the banks.

The Bari are sedentary agro-pastoralist inhabiting a good portion of land along the River Nile where Juba, the capital of South Sudan is in the center of their land.

The population of Bari is approximately about 1,000,000 and is the country’s 4th largest ethnic group in the South Sudan.

The language they speak is called the Bari Language, a mother tongue, spoken by more than 2,000,000 people spread throughout South Sudan to Northern Sudan, to the Northern of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Bari community looking to their ancestral language as a means of cultural revival. And although it has been dormant for over a half century, it was well preserved in the christian bible and other fictional and nonfictional books so The Bari community studied and taught the language to their children raising the first native readers in their mother tongue. 

The Impoasse on the Appointment of the new Archbishop of Juba

The new independent country of South Sudan from the Sudanese portion of North East Africa. of population 12 million people bordering Ethiopia to the east, Kenya, Uganda and the DRC to the South and the Central African Republic to the wast. 

in July 2011. South Sudan came out of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Challenges to the new Republic include: decades of underdevelopment in terms of services and infrastructure, long-standing tensions with Sudan. There was a Civil War at the end of 2013 Making harder for the education system to development, a tremendous degree of lives lost, displacement, and political tension.

Dr. Loro Lo- Kaja Kujjo, assistant professor, department of Radiology, colleges of Osteopathic Medicine , Ph.D. in Reproductive Physiology and Endocrinology, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Dr. Lako Tongun , a professor of International Intercultural Studies Political Studies at Pitzer College, Claremont, CA also we welcome our quest speaker Dr. Abanik from Texas University and others Joining BC Global Teleconfernce on a continue series of discussion about " The Future of Higher Education in South Sudan" .  

The new independent country of South Sudan from the Sudanese portion of North East Africa. of population 12 million people bordering Ethiopia to the east, Kenya, Uganda and the DRC to the South and the Central African Republic to the east. 

in July 2011. South Sudan came out of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Challenges to the new Republic include: decades of underdevelopment in terms of services and infrastructure, long-standing tensions with Sudan. There was a Civil War at the end of 2013 Making harder for the education system to put it toe, a tremendous degree of lives lost, displacement, and political tension.

Dr. Lako Tongun , a professor in the International Studies department at Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, Joins BC Global online Radio Today to talk about The historical background of Education in South Sudan before the coming of the British colonialism in Sudan to the current Educational system in the South Sudan.

This Episode is dedicated especially to the Nyerkanyi community and Bari in general in regard to the gap in the leadership and development in the area.

In this Episode, we explore who are the Bari and their clans, The Location of the Bari Land and the people, Bari Culture and Traditions, the Socio-Economic Setup of the Bari, respect for the rule of laws in the Bari community and other challenges, such as, land grabbing ,border dispute and the insecurity.

According to Professor Nyombe, in his book "Some Aspect of Bari History, 2003" He says, " What makes humans different from other species is their thirst to know their past, this fast is important for their individual or collective self-esteem." Also you can read more from Fr. Spagnolo 1933 " The Origin of the Bari "

نوع فروع المعرفة كلها وتتصل دون ان تنفصل و يشير هذا الاتصال الى توحيد الثقافات فى كيان واحد. فوجدت ان التطبيق العملى لمفهوم الفضيلة فى الأداب و الحكايات و الروايات فى دولة الجنوب السودان عامل مشترك لتوحيد الامم دون إدخال متغيرات جديد من ثقافات إلى ما هي موجود

تنوع فروع المعرفة كلها وتتصل دون ان تنفصل و يشير هذا الاتصال الى توحيد الثقافات فى كيان واحد. فوجدت ان التطبيق العملى لمفهوم الفضيلة فى الأداب و الحكايات و الروايات فى دولة الجنوب السودان عامل مشترك لتوحيد الامم دون إدخال متغيرات جديد من ثقافات إلى ما هي موجود