EMMANUEL JAL, WAR CHILD - BETRAYAL IN THE PROMISED LAND OF SOUTH SUDAN (MF GALAXY 021)
Award-winning hip hop artist, activist, author, and former lost boy Jal Jok, better known as Emmanuel Jal , was born around 1980 into a destiny of pain. When he was seven years old, Sudanese soldiers killed his mother—the first of many of his family to die at government hands. After his father joined the Sudan People’s Liberation Army or SPLA , Jal sought refuge in Ethiopia along with thousands of other children, and ended up enslaved by the SPLA as a child soldier—the so-called “lost boys.” SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE ON iTUNES SUPPORT MF GALAXY ON PATREON LISTEN TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE, RIGHT-CLICK AND SELECT "SAVE AS" Jal eventually escaped to the town of Waat where he met a British aid worker named Emma McCune who was married to SPLA commander, and future South Sudanese vice president Riek Machar . After adopting Jal, McCune took him to Kenya for education, but she herself died in a vehicle accident only months later, and he soon found himself living in the slums...