![]() ![]() He fell in love with Hip Hop - not the American-style 'bling and babes' version, but rather a very Africanised form. His first hit "All We Need Is Jesus", was a hit in Kenya and received airplay in the UK. Emmanuel ended up fending for himself again, and eventually got into music. Emma sent him to school in Nairobi but within months she herself was killed tragically in a car accident. At 11 years of age, he was lucky to be found and rescued by Emma McCune, a British aid worker who adopted him and smuggled him to Kenya. Emmanuel fought as a young boy with his AK 47, and as the strife became more and more confused and violent, he ran away with some other child solder recruits. Instead, the kids were recruited by the Sudanese People's Liberation Army and taken to military training camps in the bush in Ethiopia. When he was about seven years old his mother was killed by soldiers, and he decided to join the thousands of children traveling to Ethiopia who had been told that they could get some schooling. Rising Hip Hop star Emmanuel Jal was a young boy in Southern Sudan when the second Sudanese Civil War broke out. ![]()
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