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. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer, Jal's family moved again and again, seeking peace. 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. And Jal was conscripted into that army, one of 10,000 child soldiers, and fought through two separate civil wars over nearly a decade. 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.
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Listeners who can open themselves up to hearing the brutal memories of a boy who lived through genocide in Sudan will hear how his mother explained what he had seen done to his sister--rape. As narrator Ademola Adeyemo speaks the hard-to-distinguish English common in East Africa, experienced ears will adapt to his unusual accent as he recounts the haunting details of Emmanuel's life there and his struggle to survive a cultural, religious, and economic war. Adeyemo adds artistic richness by turning selected prose into poetry. This memoir--narrated by a native speaker using a parochial dialect we can barely understand--will transport every listener's imagination to that place and those times. J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Emmanual Jal now lives in London. His music has been featured in the movie Blood Diamond, the documentary God Grew Tired of Us, and in episodes of ER. A documentary about Jal’s life, also titled War Child, premiered to acclaim at the February 2008 Berlin Film Festival and debuted in America at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2008.
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