Emmanuel Jal

Emmanuel Jal is a South Sudanese hip-hop artist who has won worldwide acclaim for his unique style of hip-hop with its message of peace and reconciliation born out of his experiences as a child soldier in Sudan. Jal was taken from his family home in 1987 when he was six or seven years old, and sent to fight in Sudan’s bloody civil war. After a series of harrowing events, he was rescued by a British aid worker who smuggled him into Nairobi to raise him as her own. To help ease the pain of what he had experienced, Emmanuel started singing.