source: Cocorioko This was supposed to be read at the South Sudan Youth of Canada Conference at Grant MacEwan University on July 28,2018. I spoke on the same topic but I didn't get to read the speech. I am posting it here for everyone to read, learn something and engage in the discussion on the topic. It was one of the highly discussed topics during the panel discussions at the conference. Many youth were interested in it. *** Good morning everyone. Great thanks to the organizing committee, the youth who came up with the idea of the conference and great thanks too to Grant MacEwan University for offering the space. What is tribalism? A few years ago I wrote an article on South Sudan News Agency, and a young man from a certain tribe—and I’m not going to name which tribe, because, as David Ropeik once wrote that “tribalism overrules reason,”—saw my name and commented: “all Dinka are the same.” When he realized that others were making positive comments, he we