I would like to congratulate you for the effort you are making toward publication of Nuba Vision, an excellent and informative newsletter. Nuba Vision is an important sources of information for us on the Nuba people. It is certainly filling the gap and playing an important role in promoting the struggle and drawing our attention to the plight of the Nuba people in Sudan.

I like your political analysis on Machakos and the peace process in the last two issues titled: "challenges ahead and critical time for Sudan". I also found the article written by Peter Moszynski very interesting and useful.

I would like to see Nuba Vision publishing more articles on Nuba culture and history. Because many people in the West would like to know more about the distinctive culture of the Nuba people. They had come to know them through the early work of George Rodger, British photographer, who went to the Nuba Mountains in 1948. Rodger brought with him good pictures from the Nuba Mountains, which considered best images coming from Africa. The famous picture of a Nuba wrestler carried on the shoulder by his brother still remembered as one of the best work of George Rodger.

Finally, I wish you at the editorial board every success to continue producing Nuba Vision.

Yours sincerely,

Paul McDonald
Invense Avenue
Inverness
Scotland

Dear Editor

Thank you for sending me a copy of your wonderful Nuba Vision. I found the newsletter is extremely interesting, and would definitely benefit our understanding of the Nuba predicaments in Sudan.

I like your article in the last issue "The Sudanese War and the Nuba people" which gave us a clear picture of the root causes to the conflict in the Nuba Mountain. It appears that the suffering of the Nuba did not start with the present regime in Khartoum but it goes back to many years. I have been following the peace process for Sudan since the signing of Machakos Protocol last July. However, the issue of the Nuba Mountains seems to be not included in the agenda of discussion between the two parties who are negotiating currently in Kenya under IGAD auspices. Could you explain to me why that is? Our understanding to the Nuba problem that they have been marginalized suppressed and exploited for a long time. Certainly, they deserve a fair settlement within the ‘Machakos Framework.’ I believe that any peace settlement, which does not include Nuba and others, will not bring a just and lasting peace for Sudan.

I would like to continue receiving Nuba Vision to keep informed about the Nuba situation in the Sudan.

Yours sincerely,

Carolyn E. Johnson
Dearborn
Michigan
USA