Tabitha Malang:”Yecu Wen Nyanë Buɔɔr”

Enhanced picture showing a mother and child

Enhanced picture showing a mother and child Source: Pixbay

Malang Mayen Duot (Kotjang) is a member of Youth Mama choir who is now residing in Juba. She composed a song which came as a dream to her in 2016. She only sang a verse of this religious song “YECU Mɛ̈nhë Nyanë Buɔr” before few friends in 2016. This song was refused by the church management but someone who recorded kept the audio until it's emerged on social media in 2018. Malang explained what she was trying to say in that song. The story will be on SBS Dinka today. Until now, many of us who shared the song of Malang Mayen Duot “YECU Mɛ̈nhë Nyanë Buɔr” are left questions that they needed to ask her. The song gave many a reason to smile, laugh or even question history.


How could she come up with such song? She is there to give you reasoning or an answer to any question about how and why? Without a doubt, she is a composer, singer and a creative person who love to share her sense of humor with others. In her life as a mother, some of the people who are aware of who she is would tell you how funny she is or being such a creative singer/composer and entertainer.

But wait, this is a mother who lost five boys during the war in which two of the boys were killed in Mongala by Antonov's aerial bombardment in late 1991, one boy in Amme and the other two boys died in Lobone. She survived an attempt on her life when her cousin pierced her thigh for refusing to be forced marriage in the 1980s.

Out of all these, she is not upset or ready to play a victim's card. She appreciates the way she is living her life now especially with singing or composing both religious and traditional songs. “Why would I consider myself in a worse life when I am still a wife, a mother of two girls and one son? Despite all that I went through, 'I chose to be happy and not allow the situation I have been to take control me.


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