South Sudan

Books in this genre are set in or about South Sudan.

There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan
A Long Walk to Water
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
What Is the What
First Raise A Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace
Beneath the Darkening Sky
Emma's War
Walking the Nile
Edo's Souls
Making Peace & Nurturing Life: A Memoir of an African Woman About a Journey of Struggle and Hope
Children are Diamonds
God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
War Child: A Child Soldier's Story
Sooley
Songs of a War Boy
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters
Binti by Nnedi OkoraforThe City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyWho Fears Death by Nnedi OkoraforEverfair by Nisi ShawlLagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
SF & F Atlas - Africa
57 books — 16 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,766 books — 1,647 voters



Duop Chak Wuol
There is no doubt in my mind that the South Sudanese civil war has exposed global hypocrisy in a stunning way — and I am not quite sure if this level of hypocrisy is a Western, African, or Eastern one.
Duop Chak Wuol

Duop Chak Wuol
The Republic of South Sudan does not belong to a particular tribe—it belongs to all tribes of South Sudan; those who think so should think coherently. The truth is, tribalism kills and destroys.
Duop Chak Wuol

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