Last August, the government of Southern Sudan (GOSS), the semi-autonomous government administering Southern Sudan, asked a South Sudanese lyricists to write a national anthem. The anticipatory anthem was one of literally thousands of tit-for-tat political exchanges between the GOSS and Sudan’s national government in Khartoum, as both governments maneuvered for advantage in the Jan. 9, 2011, referendum on southern independence. Diplomats and international aid workers in the region report that southerners will overwhelmingly choose independence. If they do, sometime in 2011 the GOSS will become the newly independent state of Southern Sudan, complete with new national anthem.
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