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Letters from Isohe: Life on the edge in a school in South Sudan
How do you study when there’s nothing to eat?
In 2011, following the independence of South Sudan, Liz Hodgkin – a historian and human rights researcher – took up a teaching post in a village in the remote Dongotono Mountains, joining South Sudanese colleagues in their struggle to keep the school open as the country pulled back from war. Sometimes there was no food; girl students were pressured into marriage; violence was commonplace. These letters – joyful, comic and terrifying by turns – are a compelling account of a world where rainmakers, priests and cattle thieves strive to live from day to day, and young people yearn for education in a world of danger.
"If you read no other book this year, read this one. Liz Hodgkin goes to the poorest, most dangerous part of Africa to teach. She takes it all on-hunger, corruption, the glorious students and in her magical letters home, she shows how to make the world better - for South Sudanese and for us." MIRIAM MARGOLYES
In 2011, following the independence of South Sudan, Liz Hodgkin – a historian and human rights researcher – took up a teaching post in a village in the remote Dongotono Mountains, joining South Sudanese colleagues in their struggle to keep the school open as the country pulled back from war. Sometimes there was no food; girl students were pressured into marriage; violence was commonplace. These letters – joyful, comic and terrifying by turns – are a compelling account of a world where rainmakers, priests and cattle thieves strive to live from day to day, and young people yearn for education in a world of danger.
"If you read no other book this year, read this one. Liz Hodgkin goes to the poorest, most dangerous part of Africa to teach. She takes it all on-hunger, corruption, the glorious students and in her magical letters home, she shows how to make the world better - for South Sudanese and for us." MIRIAM MARGOLYES
116 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 16, 2022
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