Father, policeman, administrator, politician, minister, freedom fighter,

refugee: Gordon Muortat Mayen lived a full life. In this gripping account

spanning more than 50 years, Muortat retells his journey from schoolboy

to president of South Sudan's provisional government to life as a refugee

in Zaïre, Belgium, and the UK. Engaging, thoughtful, and at times

humorous, Muortat'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, 1955-1972

Aly Verjee is a researcher and mediator. He has followed Sudan since 1998, and

lived in Juba and Khartoum between 2005 and 2011.