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Seed of South Sudan : memoir of a "lost boy" refugee
- Title
- Seed of South Sudan : memoir of a "lost boy" refugee / Majok Marier and Estelle Ford-Williamson.
- Author
- Marier, Majok, 1980-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ford-Williamson, Estelle
- Description
- xii, 192 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Majok Marier, an Agar Dinka, was 7 when war came to his village near Rumbek in southern Sudan, a war in which 2 million lives were lost and 80 percent of the South Sudanese people were displaced. Surviving on grasses, grains, and help from villagers along the way, Majok walked nearly a thousand miles to Ethiopia"--
- Alternative Title
- Memoir of a "lost boy" refugee
- Subjects
- Refugee children > Sudan > Biography
- Black author
- Sudan > History > Civil War, 1983-2005 > Personal narratives
- South Sudan > Biography
- Marier, Majok, 1980-
- Sudan > History > Civil War, 1983-2005 > Children
- Sudan > History > Civil War, 1983-2005 > Refugees
- Dinka (African people) > Biography
- South Sudan > Social conditions
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185) and index.
- Contents
- One. Don't drink the water -- History of Sudan and Egypt -- Two. Walking in the wild -- Three. Where was the world while we walked? -- Four. Seed of Sudan -- Five. Fleeing Ethiopia -- Six. Kakuma Refugee Camp -- Seven. Change is in the air -- Stephen's story -- From teeth to driving, volunteers help the new residents -- Eight. America's struggle ends Sudanese airlifts -- Mama Gini goes to Sudan -- Judy Maves and the many ways of mothering -- Ninea Dinka finds a bride -- John Garang and the SPLA -- Ten. The beginning of many new things -- Eleven. Stories of South Sudan -- Twelve. Celebrities and friends of South Sudan -- Thirteen. Infrastructure -- Fourteen. South Sudan's future -- Fifteen. Warriors in a different kind of war -- Appendix: Aid groups in Ethiopia and Kenya.
- Call Number
- Sc D 14-1360
- ISBN
- 9780786474288 (softcover : alkaline paper)
- 0786474289 (softcover : alkaline paper)
- 9781476614977 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014010548
- OCLC
- 862101996
- Author
- Marier, Majok, 1980- author.
- Title
- Seed of South Sudan : memoir of a "lost boy" refugee / Majok Marier and Estelle Ford-Williamson.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Ford-Williamson, Estelle, author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 14-1360