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A review by wafflesandmuffins
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.5
This was such a difficult book to read. At times I doubted that I could finish it. Of course I always knew about the Darfur genocide and the conflict thats been going on forever now but to read a personal story of someone who went through it for the first time... it's just more agonising.
The sad thing is that the terrible things the janjaweed did back then are exactly what they are doing in Khartoum and in Darfur as of recently . It's heartbreaking. Nothing have changed. It's also ironic that the Sudanese government and Janjaweed committed atrocities in Darfur back then and now they are fighting each other in Khartoum.
What I wasn't aware of was the deep colorism and racism that the African tribes faced from the Arabs. As if we aren't all black at the end of the day..sigh.
The sad thing is that the terrible things the janjaweed did back then are exactly what they are doing in Khartoum and in Darfur as of recently . It's heartbreaking. Nothing have changed. It's also ironic that the Sudanese government and Janjaweed committed atrocities in Darfur back then and now they are fighting each other in Khartoum.
What I wasn't aware of was the deep colorism and racism that the African tribes faced from the Arabs. As if we aren't all black at the end of the day..sigh.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Rape, Racism, Sexual violence, Child death, and Genocide