Résumé: “Left home at the age of seven, one year later I’m carryin’ an Ak-47.” His electrifying music crackles with both pain and hope. For hip hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier in Sudan’s brutal civil war, these lyrics are hardly empty posturing. They are the bitter reality of a young man who was forged in the crucible of one of the world’s most cruel wars, “voices on my brain of friends that were slain…” A visiting film crew discovered the eloquent and self possessed 7 year old refugee.