Mende Nazer

Mende Nazer (* around 1980 in a village in the Nuba Mountains, Kordofan Dschanub ) is a British writer and human rights activist of Sudanese origin. Your work and influence is based on her past as a slave, she was known for her autobiography slave. Her autobiography was assessed using the British Film Fund UK Film Council for television under the title I Am Slave: - filmed (English title I am Slave I, the slave ).

Life

In her biography Mende Nazer describes how she was abducted about 12 years in a raid by militia from their village of the tribe of the Nuba in Sudan. It was, as other captured children, sold to a slave trader who brought in the capital Khartoum. There she was sold and forced some eight years to a life as a slave in a wealthy household. Finally, it was passed down from her mistress on her sister, who lived as a woman, a Sudanese diplomat in London. Mende Nazers slavery continued in the house of that diplomats. In 2000, she succeeded with the help of other tribesmen to flee. With the help of Damien Lewis, a British journalist and Sudan experts, was her autobiography.

In October 2002, her application for asylum in the UK was refused. Due to the indignation of the media, the protest of many of its readers as well as the support of human rights organizations deportation could be averted, Mende Nazer was recognized as a refugee. She now lives in London.

In 2006 she was a British citizen and was able to visit her family for the first time in the Nuba Mountains, where since the Bürgenstock Agreement is at peace again.

Works

• Mende Nazer, Damien Lewis: slave. Snow Kluth, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7951-1801-8.
• Mende Nazer, Damien Lewis: Freed. The return of the slave. Droemer / Knaur, Munich, September 2007, ISBN 978-3-426-27354-8.