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Acts of faith

2005
A group of men and women fighting the civil war in Sudan find themselves thrown into a well of moral corruption that tries to turn their strengths into weaknesses, forcing them to make ethical compromises in order to survive.

The lost boys of Natinga

a school for Sudan's young refugees
1998
Describes daily life at Natinga, a refugee camp and school established in 1993 in southern Sudan for boys forced from their homes by that country's civil war.

Sudan

2006
Describes the history of the Sudan and its political and social turmoil including civil war, famine and drought, genocide, and terrorism.

A long walk to water

based on a true story : a novel
2011
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven.

Tears of the desert

a memoir of survival in Darfur
2008
Recounts the author's experiences and observations of the genocide in Darfur, and her role as a physician treating girls who had been raped and mutilated, after tensions between Sudan's Islamist dictatorship and communities such as the Zaghawa tribe exploded.

War child

a child soldier's story
2009
A memoir of Emmanuel Jal's upbringing during the civil war in Sudan in the 1980s and conscription into the Christian Sudanese Liberation army as a child soldier, and covers his rescue and adoption by a British aid worker and success as a hip-hop recording artist and documentary film subject.

The kingdom of Kush

the Napatan and Meroitic empires
1998
Presents an account of the thousand-year history of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, and provides information about Kushite religion and funerary rituals, architecture, urban and rural settlement, economy, arts, and decline and fall.

Sudan in pictures

1988
Introduces the land, history, government, people, and economy of the largest African country in area.

War child

a child soldier's story
2010
A memoir of Emmanuel Jal's upbringing during the civil war in Sudan in the 1980s and conscription into the Christian Sudanese Liberation army as a child soldier, and covers his rescue and adoption by a British aid worker and success as a hip-hop recording artist and documentary film subject.

Sudan

1880 to the present : crossroads of a continent in conflict
2001
Examines the history of Sudan, discussing the importance of the Nile to the African nation, looking at the lives of its people, and considering the challenges the country faces in the future.

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