John Garang
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John Garang de Mabior (23 June 1945 – 30 July 2005) was a Sudanese politician and activist leader.
He served with the Sudan People's Liberation Army from 1983 to 2005, and after a peace deal, he served as First Vice President of Sudanese Civil War for a short period of time until his death in a helicopter crash on July 30th, 2005.
Garang, a developmental economist by trade, had a major influence on the movement that culminated in the founding of South Sudan.
Early life and education
Garang, who is widely recognized as the founding father and symbol of unity in today's South Sudan, is a member of the Dinka ethnic group. In Wangulei village Twic East County, Sudan's upper Nile province, he was born into a poor family. He had his fees for school paid by a relative, went to Wau and then Rumbek, as an orphanage by the age of ten. He participated in the first Sudanese civil war in 1962, but because he was so young, the leaders advised him and others his age to seek an education. Garang was forced to finish his secondary education in Tanzania as a result of the continuing conflict. After winning a scholarship, he went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1969 from Grinnell College in Iowa, United States.
As a Thomas J. Watson Fellow at the University of Dar es Salaam, he was given another scholarship to study East African agricultural economics. He was a member of the University Students' African Revolutionary Front at UDSM. However, Garang returned to Sudan shortly to join the rebels. Garang met and befriended Yoweri Museveni, the future president of Uganda, at this moment; however, both Garang and Museveni were students at UDSM in the 1960s, so they did not attend at the same time. Garang was in 1970, one of Gordon Muortat Mayen's troops, the then leader of the Anyanya liberation movement, was sent to Israel for military service.
The civil war came to an end with the 1972 Addis Ababa Treaty, and Garang, like many rebels, was absorbed into the Sudanese army. After taking the Infantry Officers Advanced Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, United States, he went from captain to colonel for eleven years. He went on four years of study and graduated with a Master's degree in agricultural economics from Iowa State University (ISU). He obtained a PhD in Economics from Iowa State University in 1981 (ISU). Col. Garang had been instructing the cadets for more than four years by 1983. Later, he was selected to work in Khartoum's military research branch.