Interview with Jacob Guot, September 22, 2017

Interview Summary

Jacob Thon Guot was born in Sudan in 1980. Separated from his parents at age 7 when the Arab Muslim North bombed villages in the black Christian South of Sudan, he walked 1000 miles to Ethiopia as one of the "Lost Boys" and lived for 13 years in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. He came to Texas as a refugee in 2001 where he finished secondary school and began college. He completed a B.A. in Pennsylvania and moved to Kentucky in 2012 where he graduated from Asbury Theological Seminary in 2016 with two masters degrees. He has organized Africa Sunrise Communities, an NGO designed to help bring peace and conflict resolution to people of East Africa. His goal is to go with his family to Uganda and work among the Dinka from South Sudan who are living in a refugee camp just as he did.

Interview Keyword

Identity (Psychology) Discrimination. Occupations Employment--Kentucky Scarification (Body marking) Race discrimination Lost Boys of Sudan

Interview LC Subject

Childhood Ethiopia Families. Refugees Sudan Civil war Kenya Refugee camps Emigration and immigration. Immigrants Churches Religion Education Higher education Education, Higher Emigration and immigration law--United States

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