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THE LEOPARD’S LAST GROWL – a No...
THE LEOPARD’S LAST GROWL is a tale of history, culture, and identity set in war-torn Sudan before South Sudan seceded. Through the lives of four main characters, the novel explores the collapse of ancestral ways under the weight of civil war, Christianity, and change.
Chief Chuol, a once-revered leader, is devoted to his people’s traditions. But his authority crumbles when the land and his family defy it.
Nyayiela, weary from her loss, finds hope in Christianity, and is cast from home. Torn between her new union and the old marriage, she must endure in a world that suppresses her will.
Nyehok, a rebellious daughter, rejects a man of her father’s choosing and flees to Khartoum with another. She lives childless, under her father’s curse. Hope is rekindled when Biliw delivers a symbolic blessing that allows her to reconcile with her father’s spirit.
Biliw, the novel’s central character, watches his family unravel, his father lose power, and his village destroyed by airstrikes. He flees to Khartoum where he struggles with his identity. He dreams of studying law and using it to challenge the Sudanese government for its marginalization and oppression of his people.
A CALF OF A BULL by Gatluak Jany
A CALF OF A BULL tells the story of a young boy who is tussling for education, communal unity and change but he is faced with the uncompromising dogma of his culture and the growing violence of his father. Gatwec wants to go to school but his father wants him to only inspect the calves. Also, a swamp stands in his way. Will the boy drown in the swamp if he stealthily goes to school?
In a culture that forbids boys from communal privileges and leadership, can Gatwec achieve the unity and change he wants yet he refuses facial scarification? His father and the clan elders ritualize him by the ancestral spirits but he goes on to join the church. He must escape his father’s fury or he dies like his sister. After escaping, will he remain a slave boy for an Arab soldier or return to his father’s violence?