Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:11:04 Associated. From child soldier, to refugee, to rap star, War Child is one boys incredible story of survival and triumph Notes. Shocking, inspiring, and finally hopeful, War Child is a memoir by a unique young man, who is determined to tell his story and in so doing bring peace to his homeland. Emmanuel Jal was seven years old when he became a soldier and went into battle with the rebel army in Sudans bloody. He and other young soldiers killed countless Arabs, but savage conditions eventually forced them to defect. Carrying an AK-47 that was taller than he was, the boy learned to fight and soon was sent to war. Emmanuel Jal himself is a great example of what can happen as a war child and what had led up. But as Sudan's civil war moved closerwith the Islamic. He began the journey that would lead him to change his name and to music: recording and releasing his own album, which produced the number one hip-hop single in Kenya, and from there went on to perform with Moby, Bono, Peter Gabriel, and other international music stars. Jal was at an SPLA military training camp, where he was educated to become one of the 17,000 Lost Boys of Sudan, child soldiers. I believe that being a war child greatly affected their lives. In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings.

Soon, Jal was conscripted into that army, one of 10,000 child soldiers, and fought through two separate civil wars over nearly a decade.īut, remarkably, Jal survived, and his life began to change when he was adopted by a British aid worker. Then, on one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed his father Simon rose to become a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan. But as Sudans civil war moved closerwith the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and other resourcesJals family moved again and again, seeking peace.

In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. Emmanuel Jal is one of those boys now an adult, he travels the world as a rapper explaining the War Child life he lived he has starred in a documentary of the same name and released both.

War Child by Emmanuel Jal