Mende nazer biography of abraham
A problematic edge of the Nazer case is that Nazer actually told her story to a journalist and ghost writer during a time when she was neither.!
Mende Nazer
Sudanese author and human rights activist
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Born | c.
1982 (aged c. 42) Sudan |
Mende Nazer (born c.
We are excited to announce the return of the award-winning play "Slave – A Question of Freedom," based on Mende Nazer's powerful autobiography.
1982) is a UK-resident, Sudanese author and human rights activist. Nazer was a slave in Sudan and in London for eight years. She later co-wrote the 2002 book Slave: My True Story.
Abduction
Nazer is a Nuba woman from a village in the Nuba mountains of southern Sudan.
Mende Nazer, a Sudanese author and human rights activist, was born in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
According to her own account, at the age of twelve or thirteen (her birthdate is unknown), she was abducted and sold into slavery in Sudan following a slaving raid on her village. Although her family fled the raiders into the mountains, she became separated from her family and was caught by one of the raiders.
For six years, Nazer served a family in Khartoum, where she was forced into hard labour and was subjected to physical abuse.[1]
Escape and asylum claim
Six years into her captivity, Nazer was sent to London to be a household servant to a