Emmanuel Jal

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.