Father, policeman, administrator, politician, minister, freedom fighter, refugee: Gordon Muortat Mayen lived a full life. In this gripping account spanning more than 50 years, Muortat retells his journey from schoolboy to president of South Sudan's provisional government to life as a refugee in Zaïre, Belgium, and the UK. Engaging, thoughtful, and at times humorous, Muortat's personal history is inextricable from the history of South Sudan's liberation. " Gordon Muortat Mayen is the embodiment of a genuine South Sudanese patriot, astute politician, visionary, and revolutionary. He has written an honest, detailed, and multi-faceted political history of the South Sudanese struggle for independence. This is a must read memoir! " - Scopas Poggo, Author of The First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972 Aly Verjee is a researcher and mediator. He has followed Sudan since 1998, and lived in Juba and Khartoum between 2005 and 2011.