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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.

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. 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. A former child soldier of Sudans brutal civil war, he is now an international hip-hop star sharing a message of peace for his war-torn land. 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. Emmanuel Jal is one of those boys now an adult, he travels the world as a rapper explaining the War Child life he lived he has starred in a documentary of the same name and released both an album and now this book sharing his feelings on the past and the present of a country in unending distress. This award-winning documentary chronicles the shocking, but inspiring odyssey of Emmanuel Jal. His violent memories are graphically relayed in this powerful autobiography. but also become an international rap star for peace.

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. As a young kid barely able to carry a gun, Jal, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, witnessed and perpetrated unspeakable brutality in his country’s civil war, but he has not only found refuge in the U.S. 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.