Paru le 09/03/2022 | Broché 549 pages
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Twenty-one years with dr. John Garang
1985-2005
The Author followed during 21 years the fight of Dr John Garang de Mabior. The relations they had allowed to raises some unknown details and to describe Garang's character, his mind-set, his vision and the way to victory and especially his mysterious death which changed the history of Sudan.
Many meetings and long discussions with Dr John Garang and his commanders as well as with leaders in opposition and even with his enemies, had allowed to understand the roots of the conflict.
The Author describe some unknown facts, rarely recorded in conditions of a rebel war. Additionally, there is a short description of the period after his death until 2021.
From the beginning of his rebellion war, in 1983, Garang had always fought for the concept of a new, united Sudan in which a secular state would give all regions and ethnic groups equal social status, a share of the national wealth and political access. The secession showed in South Sudan how difficult is to govern a multiethnic Nation even if it is black African.
This book contains photos, references, annexes, notes and bibliography, for future researches.
Dr. Zygmunt L. Ostrowski, pediatrician in Paris, graduated in Warsaw in African sciences, former advisor to the World Health Organization, is president of the ADE, a humanitarian NGO. While conducting scientific studies in Southern Sudan, he found himself immersed in the midst of the Sudanese civil war. He had published several scientific and geopolitical books on Sudan. For one of these books, Dr. Zygmunt L. Ostrowski shared in 2007, with Dr. Marie-Christine Josse the Henri Duveyrier (1840-1892) Prize of the French Geographical Society, 2007.
