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1) Sooley
Author
Language
English
Description
In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on a airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed, quickness, and an astonishing vertical leap. The rest of his game,...
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The journey of two teenage Sudanese boys, orphaned by their war torn country, who traveled to America looking for a safer environment and learning to cope with the unfamiliar complexities of contemporary American society.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
As a refugee from Sudan to the United States, Sangoel is frustrated that no one can pronounce his name correctly until he finds a clever way to solve the problem.
9) Lyrics Alley
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
310 pages : geneological table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Their fortune threatened by shifting powers in Sudan and their heir's debilitating accident, a powerful family under the leadership of Mahmoud Bey is torn between the traditional and modern values of Mahmoud's two wives and his son's efforts to break with cultural limits.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked, and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta in 2001.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide, Ltd. Film
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the moment when the Sudan, the continent's biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old civilizing pathology re-emerges: that of colonialism, clash of empires, and yet new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources. The director Hubert Sauper flies a plane into South Sudan, interviewing residents, Chinese oil workers, UN peacekeepers, warlords and American evangelists.
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