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Independence Day 2022 on film 🎞️ 📷🇸🇸 | Chapter 2

Independence Day 2022 on film 🎞️ 📷

I had this roll sitting in my cupboard since July 2022, and it wasn’t until last week, when I was chatting with my photographer neighbour about film photography and film rolls, that I mentioned how I’ve been holding onto a tonne of undeveloped rolls. I told him I want to start developing them myself once I get my own place and can set up a lab. He warned me that exposed film can go bad if it isn’t developed within a few months.

Right after that conversation, I rushed this single roll to in a full panic. Three days ago, they sent me a folder containing these wonderful memories from my first time back home since 1997.

On this day in 1983, Kerubino Kuanyin Bol fired the first bullet in Bor, Jonglei State, leading a mutiny against the Sudanese (Arab) government. This act officially launched the guerrilla movement that would eventually lead to the birth of what we now know as South Sudan.

A few weeks later, my father also took up arms in the town of Ayod, also in Jonglei. Together, he and Kerubino marched to Itang, Ethiopia, where they joined forces with others — including John Garang, Arok Thon, Francis Ngor, and Martin Majier G*i Ayuel — to form the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).

Neither Kerubino nor my father lived to see the movement they helped start bring South Sudan to independence and freedom. But they both knew — and accepted — that the struggle for liberation would likely cost them their lives.

Today, I honour my uncle Kerubino, my father Nyuon, and their comrades. Some of them are still with us today, though living in poor conditions. Their sacrifices laid the foundation for our nation, and they must never be forgotten.

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