Making Peace & Nurturing Life

A Memoir of an African Woman About a Journey of Struggle and Hope

by Julia Aker Duany


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 7/7/2003

Format : E-Book
Dimensions : E-Book
Page Count : 304
ISBN : 9781410762818
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 304
ISBN : 9781410762825

About the Book

A brutal war has been raging in the Sudan for the past twenty years, largely pitting Northern Arab Islamic people against Southern black traditional and Christian African people. The Sudanese conflict has taken 2 million lives, displaced 4 million people, stopped healthcare, and has caused more than one generation to grow up without education.

In late 1984, my family and I left the Sudan with little more than the clothes that we were wearing, and came to the United States as refugees. I came to the United States because I wanted a place where I could be free to be the person that I wanted to be, and to be able to give my children their childhood.

The purpose of this book is to focus on women’s experiences. I wanted to be able to understand and find factors that shape social structure, and look at the way it affects women's lives in what might be called a "real situation." The theme in Making Peace and Nurturing Life is centered in family life, religion, culture and gender in a multicultural, war-ravaged country. In a narrative that carries through the Nilotic way of life, we are helped to understand the Sudan's cultural and political complexities.


About the Author

I hold the position of research associate at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University. I earned my Ph. D. in Higher Education at Indiana University .I taught at both elementary and secondary schools in the Sudan and in the United States. My areas of interest are social and justice issues, and my recent work is in gender and conflict resolution in developing countries, particularly in Africa. I was born in a small town in South Sudan. I am a mother of five children, three boys and two girls.