
War Child
A Child Soldier's Story
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Narrado por:
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Ademola Adeyemo
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Emmanuel Jal
Soon, Jal was conscripted into that army, one of 10,000 child soldiers, and fought through two separate civil wars over nearly a decade. But, remarkably, Jal survived, and his life began to change when he was adopted by a British aid worker. 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 going on to perform with Moby, Bono, Peter Gabriel, and other international music stars.
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.
©2009 Emmanuel Jal and Megan Lloyd Davies (P)2009 Macmillan AudioListeners also enjoyed...




















I picked this book off a reading list for a class I’m taking. I picked it as it was the shortest book, only 9 hours long, and I knew nothing of the topic. I had seen Blood Diamond and knew of child soldiers from Invisible Children but this book shows a different story of a child soldier. He was kidnapped and given a gun. This is a story of a boy who became a believer in the reason to fight before he was trained.
The first chapter tells how he learned of hate and used the hate when it came time to fight.
I could not recommended this book enough
Picked this book for a school assignment...don’t regret it at all
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Excellent
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You’ll find that you are living in the moment the story.
Great!!!!!
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Most stories from Darfur and South Sudan, like Dave Eggers masterful What is the What, and Halima Bashir’s Tears of the Desert, begin with a clear sense of home. But Jal starts out in the run, and the story of the attack on his home feels like a pastiche. After it, he becomes a lost boy, wandering across Sudan. And while most stories from Darfur and South Sudan focus on children being impressed into the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, Jal embraces it.
The story he tells rivals that of any for sheer adventure. Traumatized and starving, he wanders the deserts in search of food and water and victims, seeking revenge for the initial attack on his family.
The Sudanese regime of Omar Bashir was Islamist and genocidal. It was also racially Arab, and it’s initial attacks were on black Africans. So, there is a religious and racial dimension to the violence Jal embraces, and later he will tell of overcoming it. In fact, the final hours of this book are a story of finding his footing, becoming educated, and launching a career in music.
It is an extraordinary story, but I found other stories of the lost boys and victims of the Bashir regime to be better crafter. Eggers novel, which is really a memoir of his subject is perhaps the most extraordinary. They Poured Fire On Us from the Sky is also well worth reading.
All in all, a treasure trove of stories have come out of Sudan making it hard to recommend the best, and this is certainly one of their number.
~ Theo Horesh, author of The Holocausts We All Deny
Extraordinary Almost Hallucinogenic Memoir of Child Soldier
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War Chilc
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A MUST read
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