Emmanuel jal born

Musical artist (born 1980)

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Musical artist

Emmanuel Jal (née Jal Jok, 1 January 1980) is a South Sudanese-Canadian artist, actor, author, former child soldier, and political activist.

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His autobiography, War Child: A Child Soldier's Story, was published in 2009.

Childhood

Jal was born to a Nuer family in the village of Tonj, Warrap State in the Bahr el Ghazal region of Sudan (now South Sudan). He does not know exactly when he was born, and records his date of birth as 1 January 1980.^[1]

Jal was a young child when the Second Sudanese Civil War broke out.

His father joined the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). When Jal was roughly seven years old, his mother was killed by Sudanese government soldiers.^[2] He then decided to join the thousands of children travelling to Ethiopia seeking education and opportunity. Emmanuel Jal (Author of War Child) - Goodreads RIGED