out of africa: misrepresenting sudan’s ‘lost boys’
;Brandy Witthoft
Symmetry2007pp. 65-66
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witthoft2007forcedout
Abstract
The US media has taken an intense interest in the experience of a relatively small group of young males who walked from South Sudan to Ethiopia, spent up to a decade in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya and were eventually re-settled in the USA in 2001. What is behind the celebrity status – and the cultural misunderstanding – of those dubbed the ‘Lost Boys’?