Shisha smoking rocks Southern Sudan war torn cities.

By Atok Dan Baguoot


It might sound vague and fake when not properly define but Shisha or (molasses tobacco) is a sticky dark-brown honey like substance which has partial sweet smell at a close distance. It is normally placed in a small silvered plastic plate metal connected with well decorated burette or long neck bottle resembles conical flask with water meant to reduce concentration of smoke which passes through while light grayish smoke comes out of smokers mouth and nose building cloudy environment around them.



It chemical contents and compositions remain illusive although researchers believed that Shisha provides its smokers with high appetite of all sorts of foods. While smoking (sucking), a person sweat severely which signifies relieve and displacement of natural body chemical energy through idle processes. Second to that, question of eating affinity of idle Shisha smokers who claimed to eat without work. What they eat remains unanswered question in the minds of mental realistic persons.



It started along the Arabian Peninsula amongst sailors who do overstay in the sea coldness while sailing to all parts of the world pursuing lucrative businesses hence; it found its way to modern Arab cities both in Middle East and Northern African cities of Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria and eventually into Khartoum by surprise. As a matter of religious facts and denials, Arab traders used it to substitute pure tobacco smoking and drinking prohibited by Islamic laws and Sharia which actually gave it unquestionable passage in those lands of facts distortion. Couple to that it was found not contravening Islamic creed thus creating wider opportunities for redundant youths in all Egyptian cities to hurriedly pick it up immediately and move South ward of that glorified superior Arab nation where if something starts there then you don’t have to question.



After it gained considerable fame in Egypt and also realizing its repercussions they subsequently promulgated Parliamentary acts which barred it in public places as well as smoking during working hours but already it roots were now deepened in the Afro-Arab world largest slum known to as al Khartoum where 60% of its populace is idle according to International Labour Organization (ILO) facts finding research. As facts transfer, it rushed to its fertile zones of redundancy and idleness known as Southern Sudan after it was also barred by Khartoumers who had earlier on seen its negative contributions toward development. South was also its rightful place because it is a lawless and regional dumping zone of all sorts of junks discarded from all four cardinal points of the world. Prove me wrong if you can not see pictorial facts of young people smoking Shisha and drunk at 8.00Am in all our war torn cities of 21st Century which some people can either called our wrongful or rightful place of all kinds of illicit drugs.



Somebody might wonder of what a fake and vague idea the presenter is trying to bore him or her. Shisha is a hetero-practice of the jobless regardless of their age, sex; colour even skinned bleached people religious and region although few regions are found to be on the forefront in term of Shisha smoking. Analytically, Southern State Capitals bordering Northern Sudan emerged the worst meanwhile our Juba is also tallying behind them. Mathematical figures indicate that Bentiu Unity State where majority is supposed to be much busy leads in average of eight out of ten are idle and smoke, while five of ten does in Aweil, Northern Upper Nile is six of ten which smoke due to redundancy. And the prime reasons that accompanied the practice are that; their proximity to the North as well as frequent influx of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Northern Sudan the second birth place of Shisha meanwhile other illicit drugs in used are also found dominantly along the Southern Sudan and East Africa.