Days of Refugee: One of the World’s Known Lost Boys of Sudan
Nathaniel Chol Nyok
Oct 2018 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Leon Nixon
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In 1987, Nathaniel Nyok, tormented by thoughts of missing parents and siblings, fled a bloody scene and a burning village in Sudan. Wishing to live at any cost and driven by a confrontational heart-pounding fear, he journeyed through the wild to seek sanctuary in Ethiopia. At eight, he had just capitulated to an orphan-like life with a new title, A Lost Boy of Sudan, living in a refugee camp for fourteen years without a family and a future. The refugee camp became a cage that was too confining, and he languished with a sense of loss. As he battled the loss of home and family, he chose education over revenge as the road to freedom, a road that eventually brought him to America, land of freedom and rules, welcomes and prejudices. In a turning point of surreptitious blessing, grilled by United States immigration lawyers and medical experts in a two-year vetting process of interviews and medical evaluations, he was offered an approval letter, becoming one of a few Lost Boys admitted to the United States. In 2001, he resettled in Atlanta, Georgia, in a community that welcomed him, a stranger, with both joy and contempt. This story portrays his transition to American culture-from the stylishness and glam of Hollywood to battling the prejudices of his new community-as a time of both confusion and hope.
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December 18, 2018
just overwhlemed by this book already...Anything in Africa im curious to know. Zimbambwe situation touched me so much since the days of Morgan Tsvangarai...R I P Sir. My Hero!
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Nathaniel Chol Nyok is a diplomat, a humanitarian, and a motivational speaker. He is the founder and president of Ambassadors for Change: The Nathaniel Chol Nyok Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building a high school in South Sudan.
Leon Nixon is a professional actor, playwright, and filmmaker. A Los Angeles native, he has performed in short films, web series, and on stage in dramatic and comedic roles.
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