At the recent roundtable in Entebbe, many of us found ourselves saying, “Have you read such and such?” It seemed fitting to put together a list of books that were being recommended by our friends and colleagues, all of which impinge refugee matters. So here’s what resulted of getting our heads together in Uganda. Additions welcome.
An RHP Recommended Reading List
Tales of an African Intercessor
To Save a Nation
The Battle to Stop Islam in Sudan
All three by Michael Howard, available from www.kalibu.com (Africa, spiritual warfare)
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch (Rwanda)
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, Immaculee Ilibagiza (Rwanda)
We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy’s Courage and a Mother’s Love, Jim Wooten (South Africa)
This Voice in My Heart: A Runner’s Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness, Gilbert Tuhabonye (Burundi)
What Is the What, Dave Eggers (Sudan)
The Lost Boys of Sudan, Mark Bixler (Sudan)
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan, Alphonsion Deng, Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak, with Judy A. Bernstein (Sudan)
The Journey of the Lost Boys: A Story of Courage, Faith and the Sheer Determination to Survive by a Group of Young Boys Called “The Lost Boys of Sudan”, Joan Hecht (Sudan)
The Lost Boys of Natinga: A School for Sudan’s Young Refugees, Judy Walgren (Sudan, targeted to ages 9-12)
God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir, John Bul Dau, Michael Sweeney (Sudan, Ethiopia)
Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda’s Children, Faith McDonnell and Grace Akallo (Uganda)
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir, Farah Ahmedi (Afghanistan)
Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past, Peter Balakian (Armenia)
Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development, Bryant Meyers (International Development from a Christian Perspective)
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Alan Hockschild (Congo)
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (Congo)
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Capetown to Cairo, Paul Theroux (Africa)
Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard, Mawi Asgedom (Ethiopia, war with Eritrea)
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somalia, Islam)
I Am the Clay, Chaim Potok (Korean War)
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