These are tough times; happy (and not-so-happy) New Year!
Women unload bags of sorghum from a WFP truck in Gumuruk, South Sudan. Almost eight million people in South Sudan are at risk of hunger, the United Nations warned in a report on November 3, 2022. PHOTO | SIMON WOHLFAHRT | AFP
The pious hopes we habitually exchange around this time every year do have a purpose, and that is mainly to put all our travails to the side and dare to think up new realities we have not been blessed with thus far. So, we hope against hope that this coming twelve months will usher in greater joy than we have had, better lives and more happiness.
All that is in order, for we are told that those who cannot hope are condemned to be hopeless, and the hopeless are a damned lot. So, let us wish each other a very happy new year and lift our gazes to the horizon to discern our blessings such as they are.
