The story presented in this article, and the interest with regards to South Sudanese turbulent political landscape, lies in the
relationship that the author has entertained with the country and its social actors in the last decade. The author has worked in
South Sudan on issues connected to women’s health and human rights since 2013 before being tasked to investigate and
report on violations of gender and human rights within the mandate of the Ceasefire Transitional Security Arrangements
Monitoring and Verifying Mechanism (CTSAMVM) for the South Sudan Peace Process between 2017 and 2020. Therefore, it
is actually impossible to disentangle the trajectory of the author from that of Kerbino and South Sudanese politics in general,
which have overlapped several times from the country’s independence. Here reported is Kerbino’s personal and public
trajectory and the way in which these two sides have entangled and clashed. Kerbino’s story, in this short reading, serves to
represent a fragment of South Sudan’s volatile political history. Most importantly, it serves to discuss the difficulties in carving
up a space and in navigating terrains of war, institutional abuse, economic neglect and international pressure in African politics
South Sudan: The Broken dream of Kerbino Wol, philanthroper, business’ man and rebel.
