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1 online resource |
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Half Title -- 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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
This is the true story of Mecak Ajang Alaak, leader and educator, who in the early 1990s assumed command of 20,000 of the Lost Boys of South Sudan during the conflict of the Second Sudanese Civil War, and led them on a harrowing dangerous journey of several thousand kilometres to the safety of the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. Told by Mecak's son, Yuot, himself a Lost Boy, and eyewitness on the journey, it describes the enduring belief of Mecak Ajang Alaak that, when it comes to resistance, education is ultimately the mightiest weapon of them all |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 16, 2020) |
| Subject |
Alaak, Mecak Ajang
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Alaak, Yuot A.
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Refugees -- Sudan -- Biography
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Refugee children -- Sudan -- Personal narratives
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Children
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Refugee children
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Refugees
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Social conditions
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Warfare & Defence.
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Biography: general.
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Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Personal narratives
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Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Refugees -- Biography
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Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Children
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Sudan -- Social conditions
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Sudan
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Biographies
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History
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Personal narratives
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Biographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Récits personnels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781925815658 |
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192581565X |
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