This LibGuide supports the workshop "The Living Sahara" and is meant to help break down the idea of the Sahara being a dividing line between the North and South, and instead being a link and a connection.
"A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy of seven was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked by government helicopters and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta in 2001."