The Lost Boys of Sudan Webliography

Web Sites

• Times Herald-Record: Book review: A Sudanese refugee's heartbreaking tale
  A commentary and review of Dave Eggers book What is the What. The book is based primarily on several years of extensive interviews with Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng. Although fictitious, the book was created by Deng and Eggers to help people to understand the atrocities committed by the Sudanese government before and during the civil war.

• ThinkQuest: Interview with a Sudanese Refugee
  On February 17, 1999, Rose Nantongo of Kilante Hill School in Kampala conducted the following 30 minute interview with a Sudanese refugee.

• BBC News: Sudan's 'lost boys' in America
  In "Sudan's 'Lost Boys' in America," Leslie Goffe describes the varying circumstances that young Sudanese refugees have experienced since coming to the U. S. The article includes comments by the refugees.

• BBC News: The 'Lost Girls' of Sudan
  While some Sudanese boys were offered the chance to enter the United States, the Sudan's "Lost Girls" were not given the same opportunity. This article describes the many hardships and challenges that these girls still face.

• UNICEF: How to donate money to help children in Darfur
  This article includes a link for people who would like to provide financial support to UNICEF's Emergency Programs in Sudan.

• UN News Centre: Darfur: worsening security could irreversibly damage aid efforts for millions – UN warns
  From the UN News Centre, this article provides an update on the humanitarian crisis in the Sudan. At the end of the article, there are links to several relief organizations including the World Health Organization and the World Food Programme.

• MySpace: Rock for Darfur
  MySpace's "Rock for Darfur" website provides information on how to organize a gathering to educate people about the crisis. The site has a link to the Oxfam's Sudan Crisis Relief and Rehabilitation Fund.

Books

• Holtzman, Jon. Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota.
  Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
  The book contrasts cultural aspects of the Nuer people with issues and problems arising from their immigration to the U.S. in the 1990s as refugees from Sudan's civil war.

• Ruot, John Langbany. The World is Better Off Without Terrorism: Will The World Lose
  War On Terrorism.
  Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2006.
  A personal narrative describing John Ruot's personal experiences with terror in the Sudan. This book chronicles his experiences surviving and growing up in a war.

• Walgren, Judy. The Lost Boys of Natinga.
  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998.
  A description of the daily life of Sudanese boys living in a refugee camp in southern Sudan. The camp was established in 1993 because of the Sudan's violent civil war. (Reading Level: Juvenile)

• Bul Dau, John. God Grew Tired of Us.
  From National Geographic's site: This unforgettable book is the first-person account of a miracle - indeed, a whole series of miracles. A tale of suffering, tragedy, and sorrow redeemed by indomitable resolve and a stubborn refusal to despair, it's set in a Sudan shadowed by unrelenting war and ruthless violence, yet illuminated by faith, generosity, and steadfast commitment to the human spirit's finest instincts.