I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

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

[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.

It’s no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It’s a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn’t know their purpose, they get lost.

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.