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War Child

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photo by Christian Karim Chrobog
Release Date: Currently showing in select cities
Director: Christian Karim Chrobog
Cinematographer: S.J. Staniski
Studio/Run Time: Reelu Films, 92 mins.

Former Sudanese child soldier gives human face to Africa relief efforts

Despite the flood of benefit concerts and newspaper headlines that have illuminated human rights violations in northeastern Africa this past decade, humanitarian movements have lacked a human appeal to link the faceless statistics of genocide to the sympathizing human psyche. Emmanuel Jal, an international hip-hop MC and former child fighter in the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, aims to fill that void as the new ambassador of these atrocities in the documentary War Child

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Born Into War: The Urgent Mission of Emmanuel Jal

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photo by Tim Bret-Day
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Emmanuel Jal was an AK-47-wielding child soldier in Sudan.

TEN YEARS AGO
he was a high-school student in Nairobi, Kenya, living in a refugee home.

TODAY
he’s a Londoner, sitting in the bar of the St Martins Lane Hotel, sipping on a strawberry smoothie and talking about Warchild, the album he’s written with Bahamian songwriter/producer Roachie.


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