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Salma Nageeb's book provides case studies and analysis of the lives of four Muslim women living in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. Nageeb examines how these women negotiate their social space, locating their daily struggles within the increasingly rigid Islamic practice in Sudan. ... Read more

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Describes and documents various indigenous house forms in the southern Sudan and northern Kenya area in order to gain insights into the lives of the people who build them. Formulates reasons as to why people build their houses in the ways they do.

Table of Contents

List of photos
List of figures
Preface
Introduction

Part I - Western Sudan

1. Managayat
2. Zande
3. Shatt
4. Bongo

Part II - Central Sudan

1. Dinka

Part III - Eastern Sudan

1. Murle
2. Didinga
3. Toposa
4. Lotuko
5. Longarim
6. Ik

Part IV - Northern Kenya

1. Turkana
2. Shangilla
3. El Molo
4. Samburu
5. Rendille

Conclusion

Appendix: Communications cited
Bibliography:
   References cited
   Sources consulted

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This digital document is an article from Journal of International Affairs, published by Columbia University School of International Public Affairs on March 22, 2009. The length of the article is 3637 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The International Criminal Court's case against the president of Sudan: a critical look.(Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir)(Report)
Author: Mahmood Mamdani
Publication: Journal of International Affairs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2009
Publisher: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
Volume: 62Issue: 2Page: 85(8)

Article Type: Report

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1382 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 provides students and researchers with a much-needed, comprehensive resource on the subject of colonialism and expansion. From a global perspective, the set traces many facets of colonial growth and imperialism, including Europe's overseas expansion into the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific, beginning in the 15th century; the collapse of empires; race relations in decolonized regions; and current examples of continuing dependence by much of the developing world on Western nations (often former colonial powers themselves). In addition, a number of articles address the ideology and theories behind colonialism and imperialism, as well as the major and controversial issues at the core of the debate on colonialism and its consequences, such as Apartheid in South Africa, the Maji Mahi Revolt, and the Minas Gerais Conspiracy. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World Education Encyclopedia, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 11025 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This edition provides up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and technological advances. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from American Scholar, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 5097 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Education is my mother and my father: How the Lost Boys of Sudan escaped the destruction of their ancient culture and landed in the 21st century.
Author: David Chanoff
Publication: American Scholar (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 74Issue: 4Page: 35(11)

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"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau’s harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicled in this inspiring memoir and featured in an award-winning documentary film of the same name. Movingly written, the book traces Dau’s journey through hunger, exhaustion, terror, and violence as he fled his homeland, dodging ambushes, massacres and attacks by wild animals. His tortuous, 14-year journey began in 1987, when he was just 13, and took him on a 1,000-mile walk, barefoot, to Ethiopia, back to Sudan, then to a refugee camp in Kenya, where he lived with thousands of other Lost Boys. In 2001, at the age of 27, he immigrated to the United States. With touching humor, Dau recounts the shock of his tribal culture colliding with life in America. He shares the joy of reuniting with his family and the challenges of making a new life for himself while never forgetting the other Lost Boys he left behind. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (25)

lost boys, sudanese
This is a great book to learn background of this group.It gets a little redundant in places.

A timely reminder of a forgotten holocaust still taking place
A profound, moving, and inspiring real life account of a refugee from the Holocaust against Black South Sudanese by Khartoum's Islamist-Arab regime, which has resulted in the deaths of literally millions, and his resettlement in the USA.

John Bul Dau tells of his life in a village in South Sudan, the horrors he experienced and witnessed beginning in 1987, at the age of 14, when his village was destroyed and he fled naked across thousands of miles of desert and African Savannah. He describes the fight for survival against the guns and bombs of the Sudanese Arab marauders and against the equally deadly and ever present starvation. Arab soldiers from the north killed everyone with a Black skin, as Dau describes, whether they were soldiers of the rebel Sudan Peopl's Liberation Army (fighting for autonomy or independence of southern Sudan) or simple farmers in and their families.
It is quite mind blowing that the international Left who claim to be so against racism, have never taken any notice of the plight of the people of Southern Sudan and Darfur, and have indeed tried to sweep it under the carpet, because it does not fit in to their anti-Western/anti-Israel hate agenda, and because it displays a reality which does not fit in with their propaganda ofArabs as always being the poor oppressed, persecuted "other".
Atrocities by Arabs against Black Africansor Kurds or Berbers or Maronites simply is too unsettling to the propaganda of the international Left and their media and academic institutions. These people are politically incorrect and therefore not to be regarded as human, and certainly not to be put on an equal footing with the hyper-politically correct cause celebre heroes such as the Palestinians of Gaza or the terrorists interned by US forces in Abu Ghraib and Guantanmao Bay.
What a fraud it is by Left Wing academics to accuse everyone else of callousness towards the 'other'.
Dau demonstrates how the Islamist regime of Omar al Bashir pushed to transform Sudan into a purely Islamic state by means of brutality and genocide.
Dau writers of his suffering in refugee camps, his struggle to educate himself, his culture shock in coming to America and his gratitude to his new homeland, which will also be irksome to the agenda of the anti-Western Left. He recounts the emotional reunion with his mother and siblings in the USA which bring tears to your eyes After the 911 terror attacks in New York, in September 2001,Dau addressed a letter to the President George W Bushwarning that the terror which was annihilating the people of Sudan was now everywhere and urges the USA to go ahead with the fight against terror "As President you have to see far. The weak ones, who cannot see far they may cast obstacles in your way, but you must continue. I urge you to go ahead with the fight. Terrorism, religious war-it is now in Sudan and has been these 18 years of war. They are killing people in Southern Sudan. The tragedy in New York and in Washington D.C was not so strange to us, we who are from Sudan. We have been living with this for a long time. The war in Sudan is everywhere. We are people in the same situation. Osama Bin Laden has a headquarters in Sudan,. We are in the same boat and we must stick together"
Sadly the election of Barack Obama has meant the plight of all victims of Islamo-Nazism are being swept under the carpet, in line with the long awaited left wing radical agenda of appeasing Islamic terror and tyranny

God Grew Tired of Us
Every American high school student - in fact every American adult - should read this story of the life of one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, from his tight-knit village in Sudan throughout Africa on foot, and finally to the U.S.This young man stood in hours to get into a library (which did not allow checking out books)where he spent hours copying books by hand so he would have the information from those books to study and learn. ...and how many American students have I taught who came to class without books and materials, and always with the question, "Do we have to know this for the test?"This story puts our American students' mind-set to shame.On the other hand, the author also highlights the things that make our nation great.Sometimes we need to hear the "good, the bad, and the ugly."

Inspiration!
I had no idea what I was in store for when my husband came home with this movie.

Since then Ihave ordered it many times over.-sending it to friends,family, ANYONE who will watch it.
If you think you have a bad day now and then,this inspiring memoir of human persevereance, hope,( with a little subtle humor from time to time) will propel you to look at life somewhat differently.
You'll be more appreciative,understanding ,and humbled for a very long time.See this movie,buy it for friends..

Putting things in perspective
The story of the Sudanese Lost Boys has been well chronicled in the mainstream media and in a handful of personal memoirs.John Bul Dau's "God Grew Tired of Us" is among the best of these memoirs.Dau was a Sudanese refugee who fled his village during the civil war in 1992.He trekked first to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, then to another camp in northern Kenya.After many years living in Kenya, he emigrated to the United States, where he quickly became self-sufficient and a highly visible spokesperson for the southern Sudanese cause.

The book is a very personal and emotional recollection of the challenges that Dau has had to overcome in his life.Reading "God Grew Tired of Us" feels a little bit like reading two separate books, the first covering the author's years in Africa, and the second covering his life in the US.While the first half of the book is riveting for the all the violence and hardship that Dau faced, it's the second half that most people will be able to relate to.Dau struggles at first to adjust to American culture and all of its modern conveniences.He settles into a workaday life, but never settles down.The last 100 pages of the book fly through all of his accomplishments in his new country:leading an organization of Lost Boys in America, raising money to help educate and train these former refugees, and creating a foundation to provide better healthcare for the southern Sudanese.

The title "God Grew Tired of Us" might suggest that this is a downer of a book.But that's not the case.Although heart wrenching at times, the book reflects the humor, upbeat attitude and positive outlook of its author.It's an educational read.And with all of life's frustrations and challenges, this book definitely helps put things in perspective. ... Read more

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Papers given at a conference at SOAS in 1980 with contributions from C P D Harvey (environmental contexts); C Ehret (linguistics); Nicholas David (interpretation of archaeologival data from the 1979 BIEA expedition); Else Johansen Kleppe (The Debbas on the White Nile); L P Kirwan (Greek and Roman expeditions); R S O'Fahey (Fur and Fartit: history of a frontier); P Robertshaw (Eastern Equatoria in the context of later history); G J Dimmendaal (libguistic contacts between Eastern Nilotic and Surma groups); J Mack (material culture and ethnic identity); S Tornay (archeologie, ethno-histoire et ethnographie); B Mark Lynch (early pastoralist social organization); R Oliver (reflections on the British Institute's expeditions). ... Read more