Africa
Bul Dau, John and Martha Arual Akech with Michael S. Sweeney and K. M. Kostyal. 2010. Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan. National Geographic Partners, LLC. 159 pp. includes accounts of hunger in the 1980’s.
Hay, Jeff (ed.). 2011. Perspectives on Modern World History: The Crisis in Dafur. Greenhaven Press. Detroit. 165 pp. While the book doesn’t include much info on hunger in Sudan in the 1990’s and 2000’s, it does include the following list of links – Darfurian Voices (darfurianvoices.org).
The Website of the organization 24 Hours for Dafur is devoted mainly to maintain a video record of reactions to the Dafur crisis.
Save Dafur (savedafur.org). An informational Web site focusing primarily on governmental action, lobbying activities, and fundraising.
The Sudan Tribune (sudantribune.Com). And English-language online newspaper offering up-to-date reports on Dafur and other matters related to Sudan.
Hamilton, Virginia, (1985, original; 2004 illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon). The People Could Fly. Illustrated version published by A. A. Knopf/Random House, New York. Unpaginated. From Editor’s Note -- “The People Could Fly” was first published in 1985 by Alfred A. Knopf as one of the 24 tales in Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. This tale might have been told as soon as the slaves came to America, or when a fresh bunch of “Africans” were brought directly to the plantation. From front jacket fly leaf - Long ago in Africa, it is said, some of the people knew magic that enabled them to fly. But when they were brought to America as slaves, they forgot the magic. All but one old man. When he could tolerate no longer the suffering [including hunger] of his people, he whispered the magic words and, one by one and then in flocks, the slaves rose up and flew to freedom. From back jacket fly leaf – Virginia Hamilton was the first black author to be awarded the Newbery Medal in 1975 for M. C. Higgins, the Great (which also won the National Book Award) and the first author of children’s books to receive a MacArthur “genius” grant. Her distinctive writing style perfectly bridges the oral tradition and more formal literary styles.
Kaplan, Robert D. 1988 and 2003. Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea. Vintage Books (Random House), New York, 222 pp. Accounts of war and famine in the Horn of Africa in the 1980’s.
Umutesi, Marie Beatrice, 2000. Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire. The University of Wisconsin Press. 258 pp. Contains M.s Umutesis's personal account of her forced migration in the 1990's from Rwanda into Zaire, with numerous reflections on hunger.