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“This one goes to Emma McCune, Angel to the rescue one afternoon” — Emmanuel Jal from his 2008 song titled “Emma” It’s estimated that 10,000 child soldiers took part in the Sudanese civil war in ...

A Literal War on Christmas Was Never About Israel, Either Audio By Carbonatix Emmanuel Jal had a pretty rotten childhood. A Sudanese, he’s not exactly sure when he was born — sometime in the early ...

War Child, which opens today at E Street Cinema for a one-week special engagement (tickets can be purchased here [both screening times are sold out]), documents the harrowing yet inspirational story ...

Back now with Day to Day. Sudan won its independence more than half a century ago, but since then, the East African nation has been mostly mired in Civil War. Emmanuel Jal was a child soldier who ...

In the war-torn region of Southern Sudan, Emmanuel Jal was born into the life of a child solider on an unknown date in the early 1980s. Through unbelievable struggles, Mr. Jal managed to survive and ...

Short dreadlocks, stylishly askew, frame Emmanuel Jal's face, aglow with a sheen as brown and smooth as coffee beans. His story as a Sudanese child warrior turned rapper is a tapestry of tragedy and ...