Days of Refugee, Nathaniel Chol Nyok
Days of Refugee, Nathaniel Chol Nyok
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Days of Refugee
One of the World’s Known Lost Boys of Sudan

Author: Nathaniel Chol Nyok, Johnny Isakson

Narrator: Leon Nixon

Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/15/2018


Synopsis

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.

About Nathaniel Chol Nyok

Nathaniel Chol Nyok 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. Mr. Nyok, who is a diplomat, a humanitarian, and a motivational speaker, holds a bachelor's degree in international affairs from Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia, and a master's degree in diplomacy and international relations from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. In 1987, at eight years old, the Sudan civil war separated Mr. Nyok and family. Mr. Nyok, along with a group of young boys, fled Sudan and trekked barefoot for thousands of miles to seek refuge in Ethiopia. During a journey that took about two months, Mr. Nyok encountered hunger, thirst, wild animals, and crocodile-infested rivers. Becoming one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, Mr. Nyok registered as a refugee, living in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya for almost fifteen years before migrating to the United States in 2001. A former legislative intern at the United States Senate with the Office of Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and a former humanitarian and advocacy intern at Save the Children, Mr. Nyok is an activist on the Sudans, refugee rights, human rights, and Africa in Washington, D.C.


Reviews

This was, as expected, a difficult book to read. But sometimes, all we can do is listen to the stories.......more

Goodreads review by Joel

This book needs a new edition with an epilogue from the author giving his perspective on the current crisis in South Sudan. This book fills you with a sense of optimism that is quashed when you research the topic for yourself. Would like to hear the author's view on it somewhere. Good book, certainly......more