Trouble Tomorrow is a novel for young adults, set during the Sudanese Civil War. Obulejo, a sixteen-year-old Ma'di boy, whose name translates as 'trouble tomorrow', is asleep in the dormitory of his boarding school when the town is attacked by Rebel troops. Separated from family and close friends, Obulejo flees into the hills, and then makes a terrifying journey, full of danger from wild animals and pursuing soldiers. Once across the border in a refugee camp, he is safer but has no future among them - until he joins a pioneering peace education program and begins to find ways create a more hopeful life for himself and others.