A moving first hand account of the oppression of Sudan's Nuba tribesman. Ten years after shooting “Kafi's Story,” his previous film about the tribesman, British filmmaker Arthur Howes re-entered the Sudan clandestinely to find out what had happened to the Nuba. Everywhere he encountered the face of jihad or holy war. The fundamentalist Sudanese regime is pursuing its policy of forced Arabization through a systematic disruption of the Nuba family, the key agency of cultural transmission. Howes hears from Nuba refugees in Khartoum how soldiers of the Islamic National Front killed their cattle for food, seized their land for profitable mechanized agriculture and burnt their villages. 60,000 Nuba children have been abducted to "Peace Camps" where they are forcibly converted to Islam and, some as young as 12, make unquestioning recruits for the Sudanese army. Howes estimates that 40% of the Sudanese army is now composed of Nuba men. For more information on Sudan and the Nuba, click here

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