THE STRUGGLE FOR SOUTH SUDAN The Autobiography of Gordon Muortat Mayen

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