Publisher's Synopsis
Father, policeman, administrator, politician, minister, freedom fighter, refugee: Gordon Muortat Mayen lived a full life. In this gripping account spanning more than 50 years, Muortatretells his journey from schoolboy to president of South Sudan's provisional government to life as a refugee in Zaire, Belgium, and the UK.Engaging, thoughtful, and at times humorous, Muorta's personal history is inextricable from the history of South Sudan's liberation.
"Gordon Muortat Mayen is the embodiment of a genuine South Sudanese patriot, astute politician, visionary, and revolutionary. He has written an honest, detailed, and multi-faceted political history of the South Sudanese struggle for independence. This is a must read memoir!"- Scopas Poggo, Author of The First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972Aly Verjee is a researcher and mediator. He has followed Sudan since 1998, and lived in Juba and Khartoum between 2005 and 2011.
