Emmanuel Jal
Emmanuel Jal
Emmanuel Jalis a South Sudanese-Canadian musician, former child soldier, and political activist. His autobiography, War Child: A Child Soldier's Story, was published in 2009...
NationalitySudanese
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth1 January 1980
CountrySudan
advice china foreign heard policy push war
The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.
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I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?
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Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.
music
Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.
fighting soldier paper
I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.
christian mum
For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.
solutions
Education is the only solution for peace.
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In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.
continue people
What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.
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I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.
crippling ways
When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.