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Jul 29, 2005

"Your pain is my pain, My wealth is your wealth, Your salvation is my salvation." --African Expression of “Ubuntu”

Soldier Boy

Emmanuel Jal was only eight when he learnt to fire a gun. By the age of 12 he was fighting on the front line of Sudan's 21-year civil war. He once contemplated cannibalism to survive starvation and drought. Today, Jal is one of Kenya's best-known musicians, singing songs of inspiration and hope in ending Africa’s poverty and war; illnesses Jal knows all to well.