The title of my thesis, The Dispersed Seeds, refers to the Scattered Children of South Sudan known to many as ‘the Lost Boys.’ However, a thematic intention of the novel can be summarised by arguing that ‘we are not Lost Boys.’ We are ‘Dispersed Seeds.’ It is a reflective memoir meant to explain Jangdit’s experience from the time he left his parents in 1987 and fled to Ethiopia because of the civil war. It explores the trials and tribulations of living in a foreign land. It tells story of the young children struggling against poverty, ethnic and religious conflict, prejudice, and torture, searching for paradise, or at least sanctuary, in the country ripped apart by the civil war. It further contextualises the thesis in terms of the central thematic exploration of political struggle, racism, religious conflict, cultural change, violence and migration as key concepts in post-colonial literature. Finally, the purpose of the text is discussed, a key part of which is to give voice to the often voiceless victims of atrocity.
