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. In the early 1980s, at the age of seven, Jal was swept in to Sudan’s civil war, becoming one of 10,000 child soldiers conscripted on both sides of the two decades’ long conflict. Emmanuel Jal: Behind the Warchild Mining his life as a child soldier in Sudan, the MC reveals his unique perspective on battle and 50 Cent By Evan Serpick AugIn Issue 1052, Evan. Emmanuel Jal - Warchild emmanueljal 1.14K subscribers Subscribe 1.6K 557K views 14 years ago Emmanuel Jal - Warchild The official video We reimagined cable. 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’s life story, in many ways, mirrors his homeland: tragedy and terror mingling with hope and restoration. 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 Sudan's civil war moved closer-with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and other resources-Jal's 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.
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