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COPYRIGHT 2008 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
THE TRANSLATOR: A TRIBESMAN'S MEMOIR OF DARFUR
by Daoud Hari
Penguin, 8.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 210, ISBN 97801410370004
7.19 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.45 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 429 6655
When Daoud Hari was a boy, the villages of northern Darfur were peaceful places. He had a camel called Kelgi, to which he was much attached, and a vast clan of Zaghawa traditional tribal herdsmen as cousins. Sent away to school in El Fasher, he developed a taste for Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens and as a young man he left home to travel in Chad and Libya. It is what he saw when...
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