Happy Sudanese Independence Day

Happy (or sorta happy) Independence day to all Sudanese readers. This is going to be a big decisive year for Sudan, and so will the next.

Our first elections in like a zillion years, followed by Southerners deciding in 2011 whether they want to divorce the North to finally end that lovely dysfunctional bitter marriage arranged by the British.

And then of course 2012 will arrive and we’ll be screwed anyway, so why worry about voting?

Bleh, okay, I admit, a big part of me is pretty pessimistic about the transparency of the upcoming elections, but if I allow the pessimism to take over, then I’ll simply be embracing what can only be described as a defeatist attitude.

So, in Kawther’s words… “Here’s hoping that the country doesn’t descend into even greater chaos.”

Back to slowly revamping the subtleties of this blog.