{"product_id":"invisible-bridge-francis-mading-deng-9780648969877","title":"Invisible Bridge: An African Journey through Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancis Deng was in his second year in 1959-60, one of only four or five Southern law students. He was one of the favoured sons of Deng Majok, the well-known Paramount Chief of the Ngok Dinka, the only Nilotic people to live in Northern Sudan. Francis was quite short for a Dinka, only about six-foot, but he was recognizably Nilotic and, without putting on airs, had a dignified aristocratic bearing. He spoke very good English and Arabic and, in some respects, became a leader of the whole class, not just the few Southerners, for instance, leading an expedition to Germany during a long vacation. Oliver Farran and I encouraged him to gather information about Dinka custom and this turned out to be the beginning of his life-long involvement with writing about Dinka culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 1965 in New Haven, I helped to record his memories of his childhood and education from his father's compound, through village, primary, and secondary school, to universities in Khartoum, London and Yale. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This became an intimate memoir, the publication of which awaits his retirement from public life. Francis later followed a very distinguished academic, political and diplomatic career as well as publishing about forty books. After sixty years, we are still close friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eProf William Twining. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francis Mading Deng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0648969878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780648969877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Africa World Books Pty Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.44d","brand":"Francis Mading Deng","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993050251519,"sku":"9780648969877","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bfa46a5b-13d5-4152-806e-7911cb746283.jpg?v=1683322246","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/invisible-bridge-francis-mading-deng-9780648969877","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}