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Father of the Lost Boys
About this book
During the Second Sudanese Civil war, thousands of South Sudanese boys were displaced from their villages or orphaned in attacks from northern government troops. Many became refugees in Ethiopia. There, in 1989, teacher and community leader Mecak Ajang Alaak assumed care of the Lost Boys in a bid to protect them from becoming child soldiers. So began a four year journey from Ethiopia to Sudan and on to the safety of a Kenyan refugee camp. Together they endured starvation, animal attacks, and the horrors of land mines and aerial bombardments. This eyewitness account by Mecak Ajang Alaak's son, Yuot, is the extraordinary true story of a man who never ceased to believe that the pen is mightier than the gun.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map of Sudan and Ethiopia, early 1990s
- Map of Kenya, early 1990s
- Author’s note
- Prologue
- 1. Shattered dreams
- 2. Resurrection of a father
- 3. Seeking refuge
- 4. Escape to freedom
- 5. Pinyudu: home of the Lost Boys
- 6. A child soldier
- 7. A great exodus
- 8. Gilo: the river of death
- 9. Pochalla: a place of mixed blessings
- 10. Food from the clouds
- 11. A long walk to freedom
- 12. Safe at last
- 13. Kakuma: a new home
- 14. Leaving the Lost Boys
- 15. Nairobi: the beginning of the end
- 16. Seeking an escape
- 17. Down Under: to the ends of the Earth
- 18. Becoming Australian
- 19. A return to Majak
- 20. A dream realised, but …
- Epilogue: where are we now?
- Historical overview of conflict in the Sudan
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright