Pride

You know, I just thought that the problem with us Sudanese people is that we're all too damn proud. We're too proud to marry this girl or that man,we're too proud to admit we're bottom at everything. We're too proud to let go of some of our rights for the sake of peace. We're too proud to forgive. We're too proud to pay the kumsari his full sum of money, yet how dare he protest. We're too proud to admit we're wrong, and we're too proud to say we don't know. The reason we'd never hand over Omer El Bashir is not because we think he's innocent, but because we're too proud to hand over one of our own to some foreigners. Our college was closed for three months not because the police entered the college, beat up the students and arrested them, but because the students were too proud to let them get away with it, and the police were just too proud to apologize to some dumb students. The students then blamed the vice councilor because they were too proud to knock on his office door and discuss it with him. Yeah, we're Sudanese, we're not stupid or anything like that. The reason that's holding us back and causing us all those stupid problems we have is one single, extremely ugly word: PRIDE.