Proud to be Nuba

By Nanne op 't Ende.
168 pages in full cover, bound in hard cover. It features36 interviews; wonderful images by a number of great photographers; a decent history of the Nuba and a preface by Jan Pronk. It has been published by Dutch Publisher Code-X

FEATURED INTERVIEWS
- Yousif Kuwa Mekki
- Philip Abbas Ghaboush
- Daniel Kodi Angelo Comba
- Suleiman Musa Rahhal
- Neroun Philip Aju Kuku
- Ismael Khamis Jelab
and many others

PREVIEWS
Have a look at some previews in PDF:
- Interview with Yousif Kuwa
- Page from the Brief history of the Nuba

ORDER
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Revenues
All revenues of the book beyond production costs will be used to the benefit of the Nuba people, preferably in the field of preserving cultural diversity. The money will be donated to the Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Organisation, based both in Sudan and in Nairobi (for information: email NRRDO)

About the book
In 1997, 1998 and 2000 I traveled to the Nuba Mountains to document the struggle of the Nuba against the Government of Sudan. The Nuba Mountains Homepage is the result of these journeys. A peace agreement was reached on the last day of 2004. But for the Nuba peace is only the beginning. They have to rebuild their lifes; they have to deal with landmines and with hundreds of thousands of displaced people. Peace is also a return to the political struggle: agreements and promises must be turned into power sharing and services to the people.

In December 2005, Dutch internet provider Planet Internet rewarded me with 10,000 Euro for a plan to make a book about the Nuba.
I traveled to the Nuba Mountains and asked people I previously met to tell me about their lives. Their stories and their portraits are complemented with longer interviews that detail more of the recent history of the Nuba, like the interview Yousif Kuwa gave two months before he died.

Apart from the portraits and my own photos, the book has beautiful photos by four great photographers. They are Yasuhiro Kunimori, Jack Picone, David Stewart-Smith and Antonio Cores. The book also includes historical material from the Sudan Archive of the Durham University Library. It has a historical background that ranges from the origin of the Nuba to the most recent developments. This is perhaps the first time that many Nuba people talk about their part in the struggle with such candor. Jan Pronk, the former special envoy of Kofi Annan to Sudan, wrote the preface.