Library

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Dafur

Books – personal stories:

• ‘The Translator’, by Daud Hari a Zaghawa tribesman from north Darfur who risked his life translating for journalists and genocide investigators after his own village was destroyed and community destroyed.
• ‘Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur’ by Halima Bashir, is the first memoir written by a woman caught in the war in Darfur.
• ‘Heart of Darfur’, by Lisa French Blaker about her experiences as an MSF nurse in Darfur during 2005-2006.
• ‘Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival’, by Jen Barlowe (and others) who collected testimonies from many survivors of the Darfur genocide.
• ‘What is the What’, by Dave Eggers following the story of one of the ‘lost boy’ refugees from Sudan through refugee camps and finally to the USA.

Books – exploring the issues

• ‘Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond’, by Don Cheadle (actor in Hotel Rwanda) and John Prendergast.
• ‘Darfur: A New History of a Long War (African Arguments)’ and ‘War in Darfur and the Search for Peace’, edited by Julie Flint and presenting essays from African activist and thinkers.
• ‘Darfur’s Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide’, by MW Daly.
   ’Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide’, by Gerad Prurier.

Films

• ‘The Devil Came on Horseback’
• ‘Darfur Diaries: Message from Home’

Websites

• www.msf.org.au
• www.savedarfur.org
• www.darfurolympics.org
• www.reliefweb.int
• www.alertnet.org

Other

• The Wisdom of Whores: bureaucrats, brothels and the business of AIDS
  By Elizabeth Pisani
  A hilarious, insightful and honest account of the people and politics behind AIDS prevention
• Emergency Sex (and other desperate measures): True stories from a war zone
  By Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson
  “It’s the early 1990′s and three young, good-looking civilians working for the UN and the Red Cross first meet in Cambodia. For a decade, they operate in the bloody theatres of Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti and Liberia. These three voices from the world’s front line are personal, these three characters from global ground zero are fallible; their youth and idealism, faults and failures, and triumphs and tears, all work to humanise recent history and bring it home for a reckoning.” (The Times)
• The End of Poverty
  By Jeffrey Sachs
• Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-ravaged Africa
  By Stephen Lewis
  “In 2000, the United Nations laid out a series of eight goals meant to guide humankind in the new century. Called the Millennium Development Goals, these targets are to be met by 2015 and are to lay the foundation for a prosperous future. In Race Against Time, Stephen Lewis advances real solutions to help societies across the globe achieve the Millennium Goals. Through lucid, pragmatic explanations, he shows how dreams such as universal primary education, a successful war against the AIDS pandemic, and environmental sustainability, are within the grasp of humanity. For anyone interested in forging a better world in the third millennium, Race Against Time is powerful testimony.” 

*INSIGHT would like to thank Dr. Hamish Graham for his kind help in compiling the INSIGHT library