Seventy-two percent of South Sudan's population is under thirty years of age. It is this generation that must create a new South Sudanese identity that is inclusive of all its nationalities. In The Power of Creative Reasoning, author Lual A. Deng shows how the ideas and concepts touted by Dr. John Garang could facilitate the advancement of the ideals of freedom, liberty, and human dignity. The Power of Creative Reasoning provides an insider's perspective on Garang, a visionary leader who used a combination of strategic thinking and a path-goal approach to resolve complex societal problems. Deng has coined the term "Garangism" as the pursuit of Sudanese commonality with conviction, courage, consistency, and creativity to end all forms of marginalization. Deng shows how Garang employed symbolic logic in the form of Venn Diagrams to articulate the vision of New Sudan and presents ten power-ful ideas to help the Sudanese as they are facing serious challenges of leadership, democratic governance, sustained peace, economic growth, poverty, and corruption. The Power of Creative Reasoning communicates that the leadership of the new Sudan can manage these challenges by internalizing Garang's ideas. The Power of Creative Reasoning The Ideas and Vision of John Garang By Lual A. Deng iUniverse, Inc. Copyright © 2013 Lual A. Deng All right reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4759-6028-0 Contents Acknowledgments....................................................................viiChapter One: Introduction..........................................................1Chapter Two: The Ten Powerful Ideas of John Garang.................................6Chapter Three: The Vision of New Sudan.............................................70Chapter Four: Brief Shining Moments of the Sudanese Presidency.....................174Bibliography.......................................................................195Index..............................................................................201 Chapter One Introduction One of my favorite stories of possessing vision is about Walt Disney. Because Walt had passed away before the Grand Opening of Walt Disney World, Mrs. Disney was asked to appear on the stage at the opening ceremony. When she was introduced to come to the podium and greet the crowd, the master of ceremonies said to her, "Mrs. Disney—I just wish Walt could have seen this!" Mrs. Disney simply responded, "He did!" —John C. Maxwell (2001, 137) This is not a biography of John Garang. It is about only one characteristic of his entire life cycle: creative reasoning. John Garang was an economist, a soldier, a revolutionary, a political thinker, and, above all, a family man. The above quotation caught my imagination when I started contemplating the process of writing this book in December 2005. I was then leading the wealth-sharing team of the Government of National Unity (GONU) at the Darfur Peace Talks in Abuja, Nigeria. I had not been, however, successful in completing the writing before the end of the interim period due to many intervening factors beyond my control. But I would not have told the full story about the ideas and vision of John Garang had I published it at that time. The invisible hand of providence must have been behind these intervening factors. But why write a book anyway? I set out to write this book with the main purpose of providing critical tools of analysis to the young generation of Sudanese (in the now two new Sudans) in their search for self-identity on the one hand and in understanding their historical heritage/legacy (commonwealth) on the other. I have decided to call the body of knowledge based on these critical tools of analysis " Garangism ," which I define as the pursuit of Sudanese commonality with conviction, courage, and consistency. I would like the young generation in the North (now Sudan) to know that the cumulative policies of successive regimes in Khartoum have finally broken the back of the Sudanese "golden camel," thereby splitting the country into two independent states. This young generation can, if it internalizes the vision of John Garang, avoid further disintegration of Sudan into smaller states of Darfur, Nuba Mountains, Funj, Beja, and Kush. Seventy-two percent of the population of South Sudan is under thirty years of age. It is this young generation that must utilize Dr. John's power of creative reasoning underpinning his ideas and vision in creating a new South Sudanese identity that is inclusive of all its nationalities. This calls for a nation-building project that looks beyond our tribes and geographical locations on the map of South Sudan. They must focus on the unifying factors of the people of South Sudan, not on what divides them. William Gumede of South Africa, as if offering some guidelines to the young people of the South in their quest for a new South Sudanese national identity, states, South African identities are not "gated communiti