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Akuol de Mabior is the daughter of a martyr of the revolution in South Sudan. As her mother is sworn in as vice presiden | dG1fS2NrNlN0cXRDN3c
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00:00 [Birds chirping]
00:03 [Guitar strums]
00:06 [Birds chirping]
00:09 [Guitar strums]
00:12 [Water running]
00:14 Some mornings,
00:17 my mother shares her dreams and fears with me.
00:20 [Footsteps]
00:23 [Footsteps]
00:26 [Birds chirping]
00:29 She started doing it right after my father died.
00:32 [Birds chirping]
00:35 It doesn't feel like that long ago.
00:38 Yeah, that has been long since your dad left us.
00:42 It's 15 years going to 16 years.
00:45 [Birds chirping]
00:48 [Footsteps]
00:51 [Birds chirping]
00:54 He was 15 in July.
00:57 [Footsteps]
01:00 My parents have been at the center of a liberation struggle.
01:05 That means they've never simply belonged to me.
01:10 They never simply belonged to each other.
01:14 They belong also to the country.
01:17 [Speaking in foreign language]
01:20 [Speaking in foreign language]
01:23 [Speaking in foreign language]
01:32 On the morning of July 31, 2005,
01:35 the world woke up to the shocking news of the death of Dr. John Garang.
01:39 He had been sworn in as the first vice president of Sudan,
01:43 becoming the second most powerful person in the country.
01:47 [Birds chirping]
01:49 Liberation struggles belong to our forefathers, my own father.
01:56 We imagine and remember different versions of him,
02:00 transform him into the hero we can't be.
02:03 He is our father who art in heaven.
02:07 What about our mother who is here?
02:10 [Birds chirping]
02:12 I pray hard, my daughter, to see, while I'm still alive, a prosperous nation.
02:18 That's how I wanted to leave my children.
02:21 I didn't want to leave them in a country where people are divided into pieces,
02:25 even to their own core.
02:29 I started filming our morning conversations,
02:32 just as everything was about to change.
02:35 Our last oath of office will be administered
02:40 to Her Excellency Rebecca Nyanding Demabu.
02:46 [Applause]
02:48 I, Rebecca Nyanding Demabu...
02:50 Do hereby swear by Almighty God...
02:52 Do hereby swear by Almighty God...
02:54 [Birds chirping]
02:58 My mother's dreams, her ambition,
03:04 fills me with hope, fear, and so many bitter questions.
03:13 How did we win the war, win our freedom,
03:18 and then lose everything?
03:21 [Birds chirping]