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Product details
- ISBN 9780786474288
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2014
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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One of the most detailed 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 7 when war came to his village in southern Sudan. During a 21-year civil war, 2 million lives were lost and 80 percent of the South Sudanese people were displaced. Tens of thousands of boys like Majok fled from the Sudanese Army that wanted to kill them.
Surviving on grasses, grains, and help from villagers along the way, Majok walked nearly a thousand miles to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Majok and 3,800 like him emigrated to the United States in 2001 while the civil war still raged. His story is joined to others' in this book.
Majok Marier is a plumber’s apprentice in Atlanta, supporting his family and working for improvements in South Sudan villages. Estelle Ford-Williamson, a former UPI reporter, writes and teaches in Atlanta. She has published a book about Atlanta and two anthologies of recollections of the Civil Rights era.
