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Caged birds who will not sing

"Caged birds who will not sing", a review of 'Goodby Julia', the opening film of this year's European Film Festival South Africa, on 12 October 2023.

UNEDUCATED but no fool: Julia (Siran Riak) in Goodbye Julia directed by Mahomed Kordorfani which opens the European Film Festival South Africa, on 12 October 2023. Violent political conflict is always the ideal setting for very complex emotional tales of love and trauma. Mohamed Kordorfani’s first foray into film direction offers a clear and convoluted path of friendship between two women. It’s…

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The Good Lie: Directed by Philippe Falardeau. With Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal. A group of Sudanese refugees, given the chance to resettle in the U.S., arrive in Kansas City, Missouri, where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives.

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Ger Duany by Matthias Vriens-McGrath 2010

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🇸🇸 South Sudan - Ger Duany, actor

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📢 New YA Book

Walk Toward the Rising Sun: From Child Soldier to Peace Activist

Ger Duany

Garen Thomas

Make Me a World (2020)

The amazing autobiography of a young Sudanese boy who went from a child soldier to an international peace activist, a struggling refugee to a Hollywood actor.

Sudan, 1980s: Ger Duany knew what he wanted out of life--make his family proud, play with his brothers and sisters, maybe get an education like his brother Oder suggested, and become a soldier for his people when he's old enough. But then his village was attacked by the North Sudanese military, death kept taking his loved ones away, and being a child soldier was not what he thought it would be. Amid heartbreak, death, and violence, can this lost boy find his way to safety?

Ages: 14 and up

Grades: 9th and up

Pages: 320

Available on👉🏿Amazon | Bookshop

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WALK TOWARD THE RISING SUN

FROM CHILD SOLDIER TO AMBASSADOR OF PEACE

by Ger Duany & Garen Thomas

(Make Me a World, 9/22/20)

9781524719401

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The amazing autobiography of a young Sudanese boy who went from a child soldier to an international peace activist, a struggling refugee to a Hollywood actor. Ger Duany's days of playing with his brothers and sisters on the banks of the Nile were cut short when, at the age of six, his village was attacked by the North Sudanese military. Thus began a long journey into the unknown: never staying in one place too long for fear of the enemy, repeatedly experiencing the loss of loved ones, braving dangerous conditions to gain an education, taking up arms alongside his father and brothers, and eventually boarding a flight without his family to seek refuge in a foreign country. Arriving in Des Moines, Iowa in the 90s to live with previously unknown relatives, Ger worked tirelessly to adjust to a new life that, while easier in some ways, came with its own challenges. He battled the effects of PTSD and endured a new kind of racism in America, yet he also found solace in basketball, in friendships and relationships, and eventually in acting and activism. While Ger found and built communities in each place he lived in the US--Des Moines, Bloomington Indiana, LA, NYC--he never lost sight of his home and his family still in Sudan. Ger's story is one marked not only by great resilience in the face of constant change but also by an enduring sense of compassion and moral duty.

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The Write Time with Author Ger Duany on his memoir Walk Toward the Rising Sun

As part of the National Writing Project’s Author Series, “The Write Time,” co-hosted by Bryan Ripley Crandall, PhD, Director of the Connecticut Writing Project, educator and Fairfield University alumnus William King spoke with author and activist Ger Duany about his memoir, Walk Toward the Rising Sun.

Ger Duany is a survivor of the tragic exodus of an estimated 20,000 Sudanese children, the “Lost boys of Sudan,” and has been appointed as UN Goodwill Ambassador. Born in the town of Akobo, Ger was caught up in Sudan’s north-south civil war and was forcefully recruited as a child soldier. At the age of 14, he managed to escape to neighboring Ethiopia and was eventually resettled to the United States from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. In 2014, UNHCR helped Ger reunite with his mother and other family members in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp. He is also a model and actor.

Reposted with permission from the National Writing Project.

William King is an ESL teacher/coordinator at Bassick High School in Bridgeport, Conn. and a teacher leader for Connecticut Writing Project-Fairfield. Through sports and writing, he not only teaches English, but builds community and understanding among young people.

Bryan Ripley Crandall, PhD, is Director of the Connecticut Writing Project at Fairfield University where he holds dual positions in the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions (GSEAP) and English Department, in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Crandall and Abu Bility co-authored an educator’s guide for Duany’s book, Walk Toward the Rising Sun.

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CELEBRITIES OF SUDANESE DESCENT

MENA CELEBS APPRECIATION PHOTOSETS (4/?)

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The Good Lie (2014)

I seriously recommend you to watch this amazing movie inspired by true events. This movie is not about the actress Reese Whiterspoon, by the way. It’s about the Sudanese refugees.

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Inaisce, Fall 2013

Model: Ger Duany

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Ger Duany by InAisce FW 13/14

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Ger Duany by Matthias Vriens-McGrath 2010

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YORUBA MYTHOLOGY

dijimon hounsou as aganju

edi gathegi as babalu-aye

hoji fortuna as elegua

omotola jalade-ekeinde as nana buluku

anna diop as oba

isaach de bankole as obatala

jacky ido as ogun

ger duany as oko

lupita nyong’o as oshun

david oyelowo as oshosi

idris elba as orunmila

indi edo oya

genevieve nanji as yemoja

richard mofe-damijo as shango

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