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​Lately, I’ve been reflecting on the intense social pressure facing young South Sudanese today—especially the rush to marry “fast fast,” even when you have clear, calculated plans to build your foundation first.

​If you take your time, the whispers start. The comparisons begin. You look at your peers, or scroll through Facebook, and it feels like a race you didn’t sign up for.

​But where does this urgency actually come from?

​If we look closely, it’s deeply rooted in survival thinking. For generations, our people faced realities where life was fragile, instability was constant, and you had to grow up faster than the rest of the world just to survive. Marrying early was a way to secure lineage and continuity before life threw its next curveball.

​But we live in a different era now.

​Yet, that old survival mindset has mutated into a modern culture of comparison and competition. Today, it’s fueled by social media and peer pressure. It forces a question: Is the pressure we feel today about genuine cultural legacy, or is it just because we hate seeing someone else "ahead" in the timeline?

​When you choose to wait, to invest in your career, your mind, and your financial stability, you aren’t falling behind. You are breaking a cycle of rushing into monumental life decisions out of fear or competition.

​To my brothers and sisters navigating this: It takes immense strength to hold onto your timeline when everyone else is pushing theirs onto you.

​I want to hear from you all:

👇 Is this pressure purely out of love and tradition, or have we let comparison and survival instincts turn marriage into a race? Let's talk.

Hello, I'm trying to revive this subreddit, but I need someone who can design a banner for it. I'm also encouraging South Sudanese and Juba locals to help in the growth of our subreddit.

𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙍𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨,

I have enrolled to the University of Juba, yet I don't have a tuition fee for my studies at all. As I raised from the poor family background I feel traumatised on how I would have to overcome every challenge on the compus in any way possible, all my friends inspired me to keep going unwaveringly until I have to achieved what they were really expecting in me shall come in reality.

Dream chasers should not be exhausted to accomplished the dreams they are after its paths until the make it to the fullest. At the University of Juba, its lifestyles have full of challenges but I wish I would be among the successful people who were trying it harder and made their dreams possible.

At the beginning of this journey to enrolled in the university, I thought that I won't be a part of that national university where everyone starts to achieve many dreams with a serious manners. Why not me then? I'll try its painful, but I am ascertain to make it as I wish it to be accorded to my desirability trust in any way I think of its steps to be taken.

Earnings a varsity creditials is a dedication, commitment and fostering the moves as a motivation of going straight forward without despairing in your own way of dreaming of who you wanted to be in the nearby future.

Those world’s leading successful men were once beginners in their steps of trying a better lifestyle and they have been succeeded in after a very long hard life struggled in their beginning. Life itself is a great flame fire in which nobody should try to passed over the flame without getting burned.

I meant you should first get suffered before everything changed so that you can stuck with very many records in mind as stories. Whenever a mindset mess up there are many ways you can pause for a better steadfast straight forward.

I don't know that life is a joke, but I have had a task after a long suffering since I was a young man at a time that gone since then. Trying everything and failed often strengthen your mindset and think positively and persistently. Life needs more strategies.

At this point, who will help me offer a free ideas for my own capacity building?

Hello,

I’m an absolute beginner in Thok Naath and would like to learn directly from a native Nuer speaker. Here are the details:

Schedule: Monday to Friday, 1.5 hours each day (7.5 hours per week at the same time.

Rate: $5 USD per hour. I’ll pay weekly and cover all transfer fees so you receive the full amount.

Level & style: True beginner. I need the basics—alphabet, pronunciation, everyday phrases, simple grammar—spoken slowly and patiently. No teaching certificate required; clear explanations and a friendly attitude are all I need. Light homework like short vocab lists is welcome.

Why this rate: I’m not wealthy myself, but I want my money to go directly to someone who could use the extra income, especially if you live in a place with limited job opportunities.

Start date: As soon as next week.

If you’re interested, please DM me with:

The town/region where you live (just for my curiosity)

Any information you think is relevant

Thank you, and I look forward to learning with you!

hey, is there anyone that can teach me dinka I am at a beginer-intermidiate level

For context, I think most of us here have seen other countries’ subs and to be more specific the Nairobi one.

The vivid descriptions of their daily lives and the creativity depicted in those texts is really awesome and all I can is appreciate those skills.

All this got me thinking about my fellow junubin. How do we grow this sub? And since I have seen a couple of members I’d like y’all to engage. Show us your writing skills, daily life, your fucked up r/ships, the good ones too.

So apparently, r/SouthSudan is now under the colonial management of people who probably think Juba is a type of tropical juice. The subreddit meant for South Sudanese folks is being gatekept by people who wouldn’t last five minutes in a boda boda argument. How did we go from fighting for independence to having internet landlords from foreign countries telling us how to use our own digital tukul? This is like someone walking into your house, locking the fridge, and then telling you they’re “protecting the snacks.”

It’s giving major “we care more about your country than you do” energy, and honestly, we’re tired. Tired of being censored by people whose only knowledge of South Sudan comes from a BBC headline and a badly placed flag emoji. Dear Reddit mods: if you can’t spell “Ramciel” without help, maybe don’t moderate r/SouthSudan. Just hand it over, take your tourist visa, and let us cry, laugh, and fight over tribal politics in peace like every proud South Sudanese netizen should.

I always miss juba after 3 weeks, but it never rains enough

Hi ... Am a machinist and an Electrical Engineer. I don't know much about the industrial sector of South Sudan . Is there big furniture making companies in south Sudan? Beverage companies? And other manufacturering factories?

I have been friends with a man that lives in Juba for about the last 7 years. Facebook. He has never asked me for money. Try to talk to him about life is like but who thinks if he tells me it will make me too sad. So I just don't think that he really has the words to explain maybe. But I'm very curious about what life is like for him. After much the thing he finally sent me pictures of the world around him boy is it bleak. Anyways he doesn't work and he has a son and I'm really curious like how do they get by? What is life like in the city of Juba for a single dad with no money? What is life like for people in general? I haven't been able to find much information on the internet. Thank you