Emmanuel Jal was born in the early 1980s, not long before his home country of Sudan descended into civil war. The violence tore his family apart and he became a child soldier to survive. Emmanuel ...

Short dreadlocks, stylishly askew, frame Emmanuel Jal's face, aglow with a sheen as brown and smooth as coffee beans. His story as a Sudanese child warrior turned rapper is a tapestry of tragedy ...

Even while his homeland continues to be ripped apart by protracted civil war, former child fighter turned prominent hip-hop artist Emmanuel Jal is not giving up – passionately shining a light on ...

Emmanuel Jal: From Child Soldier to Rising Star Fresh Air May 8, 2008 • At 8 years old, Emmanuel Jal was carrying an AK-47 rifle as a child soldier in the Sudan People's Liberation Army.

On Wednesday, a really great story fell into my lap. Daily Collegian reporter Dinah Gorelik had an interview scheduled with Emmanuel Jal, a Sudanese rapper, activist and former child soldier in ...

Emmanuel Jal stars in the movie "The Good Lie." His memoir "War Child: A Child Soldier's Story" tells of his life in South Sudan.

Few have seen reality's harsher side like South Sudanese musician Emmanuel Jal. A former child soldier, Jal is now an activist, using his art to take ...

Emmanuel Jal’s story represents one of the more heart-wrenching and improbable paths to a happy and fulfilling life, let alone international fame as a musician. Now 32, he has just released his ...

Emmanuel Jal has many scarring memories from when he was conscripted as a boy to fight in the second Sudanese civil war.

Rapper and South Sudanese peace activist Emmanuel Jal was beaten and robbed Saturday by police in Juba, South Sudan, in an apparently unprovoked incident of police brutality, Jal’s publicist ...

Emmanuel Jal was born in the early 1980s, not long before his home country of Sudan descended into civil war. The violence tore his family apart and he became a child soldier to survive.