it to another country called Kenya now coming to Kenya was good because the the Kenyan government didn't allow the Sudanese uh um military to craw the uh the border into Kenya so it can hunthunt us down there so there was one good thing but another good thing though coming to Kenya was that they um they
And so this is like the ups and downs of journalism. That person is Sudanese ." Even if they were in the same ethnic group, even if they had traded and coexisted together for as long
And so this is like the ups and downs of journalism. The South Sudanese fought for decades to get their own country.
You see kids and the Syrian refugees living in camps, who are becoming increasingly despondent because they don't have opportunity. You see southern Sudanese families who are selling their children into arms groups because they've run out of resources and because they're increasingly desperate.
Sudan now so I'm no longer a Sudanese I am now a southern Sudanese uh Citizen and actually it's it's it's it's about 3 days old country just very new it was just born uh two 3 days
So some 2,892 deaths in that area in 2015. So this guy was a Sudanese professor, he told me.
we're getting a half-show, it's really amazing to-- You know what I'm saying? And I did an entire rap about the South Sudanese needing-- and this is before South Sudan was a country-- and the ,, and went into all this stuff.
country southern part of Sudan where I came from became independent it is the Republic of South Sudan now so I'm no longer a Sudanese I am now a southern Sudanese uh Citizen and actually it's it's it's it's about 3
and they start shooting at us we dive into the water uh most of us didn't want to be we thought as uh the uh the no Northern Sudanese troop came and so we don't want to be taken to Kum to be either a slave or you know persecuted or ped into Islam
I'm like, I don't know what I'm going to do, or how I'm going do it, but I've got to do something. with the SPLA, which is the Sudanese People's Liberation Army.
Western companies cannot do business there, because it's under sanction. So that was a golden opportunity for China to go in and go for the Sudanese oil. For once they were not buying the oil, they were actually producing the oil, they were extracting the oil themselves. The Sinopec Chinese companies were there.
So this is just our introductory slide, helping people practice nonviolence more safely and more effectively. And they saw these two, who were obviously not Sudanese , and said to them, hey, you get out.
Everywhere I went working across Africa, I found people who were unseen and in danger. When I went to Kakuma Refugee Camp, I worked with a group called the Sudanese Lost Boys. They have become kind of famous here in the US.
And so this is like the ups and downs of journalism. and said, "you've got to give these guys their independence." We gave them a lot of money, the South Sudanese , billions of dollars from American taxpayers