I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

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 still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land.

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

To tell my story, to touch lives.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.