Seed of South Sudan: Memoir of a ""Lost Boy"" Refugee - Softcover

Marier, Majok; Ford-Williamson, Estelle

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ISBN 10: 0786474289 ISBN 13: 9780786474288

Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc, 2014

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"I have met Lost Boys from all over the world, all of them with their own dreams to help back home. Majok never gives up; he keeps going. How hard it is for him to watch his family drink unsafe water and then return home to the US were it seems to be such a simple thing, but Majok will keep going on..... When you meet and talk to these men you will wonder why you haven't helped before. Become a mentor. Get involved. Read the story. Buy the book."--Judy Maves, mother of one Lost Boy and mentor to dozens; "The average fan thought swatting away basketballs was Manute Bol's primary job. But it became clear to me that playing hoops was just a front, the financial source that allowed Manute to pursue his real passion: donating his millions to worthy Sudanese causes, and campaigning to gain attention for his country's needs. Seed of South Sudan recounts how Manute's support helped free South Sudan. It's a powerful, moving story."--Alan Sharavsky, former marketing director of the Philadelphia 76ers.

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One of the most extensive books on the Lost Boys of Sudan since South Sudan became the world's newest nation in 2011, this is a memoir of Majok Marier, an Agar Dinka who was seven when war came to his village near Rumbek in southern Sudan. During a 21-year civil war, 2 million lives were lost and 80 per cent of the people in South Sudan were displaced. Majok and tens of thousands of boys like him walked from their mostly rural villages in southern Sudan, escaping the Sudanese Army that wanted to eliminate them. Surviving on grasses, grains and short term help from villagers along the way, Majok walked nearly a thousand miles to a hurriedly-built refugee camp in Ethiopia. Civil conflicts in two countries where he went for safety resulted in his travelling to a third country, a final camp in Kenya. Majok and 3,800 like him immigrated to the US in 2001 while the civil war still raged. Seed of South Sudan tells Majok's story, as well as that of others who similarly adapted to America. Stories of many who helped them are included. The book looks at their lives 12 years later, the difficulties of honouring the commitment to their home country that drove them here in the first place and at prospects for the new democracy's survival.

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• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0786474289
• ISBN 13: 9780786474288
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204