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The Clan: The Third Societal Unit

The Clan: The Third Societal Unit

Maluth, John Monyjok

Paperback

Series: National Identity, Culture & Unity, Book 5

General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN13: 9798322578260
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 11 2024
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a world where unity can break in a single afternoon, what keeps a clan alive?

The Clan is a story-driven exploration of social structure, leadership, and peacebuilding, centered on Panyim and Nyakor as they grow inside a living institution that sits between the household and the wider people-group. Through councils, rites of passage, women's quiet diplomacy, and the pressure of neighbor borders, the book reveals how a clan forms identity, produces leaders, and survives threats that can turn small incidents into collective war.

As tension rises between neighboring communities under Chiefs Baana and Akol, the reader sees how conflict escalates: rumor spreads faster than truth, honor language recruits youth into destruction, and grief becomes policy. The story does not romanticize war. It names war's real cost: broken trust inside families, emptied villages, cruelty becoming normal, and children inheriting trauma as culture.

But the book also shows the way out. It teaches courage with restraint, diplomacy as organized bravery, reconciliation reinforced through shared work and ritual, and the social power of verification, when a council dares to admit error and change course.

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