Former 'Lost Boy' from Sudan Daniel Ukang still working for his home country and walking in hope

Report from CBS8.com San Diego, USA

Published Monday 07 August 2023 - here is a full copy with video:

Former 'Lost Boy' from Sudan still working for his home country

A 'Lost Boy' from Sudan who walked a thousand miles to freedom is hoping you can walk in a $5K fundraiser to help his homeland. 

In this Zevely Zone,  I went to El Cajon to share a story of survival. 

Daniel Ukang is one of the Lost Boys of Sudan who fled when the Civil War broke out in 1987 in Southern Sudan. At seven years old, he left his family and survived the harsh life of the war. Watch video.

CBS8 News report: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/los...

Source: YouTube https://youtu.be/vZQJ6vMwUkc 

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BOOK: Hinterlands of Hope: A Lost Boy’s Journey from the southern Sudan War Zones 

From Amazon book review - about the Author

Daniel Yamun Ukang was born in December of 1980 in Western Bahr-el-Ghazal, South Sudan. He and his family lived in the small village of Yabul-lu, between Raja and Eau, in South Sudan’s western region.

Daniel Yamun Ukang, of the South Sudan Luo tribe, immigrated to San Diego, California in 2001 as a refugee from the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya where he lived for more than a decade with sixteen thousand other Lost Boys. He is the president of the California Sudanese Lost Boys and Girls Foundation, a non-profit organization that fosters community-based assistance to the San Diego Lost Boys and provides school supplies to Awoda Primary School in South Sudan. Daniel enjoys playing soccer, listening to gospel music, and spending time with his family. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Mary, and their four children.  --This text refers to the paperback edition.

View original and sample text at Amazon online: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hinterlands-Hope-Journey-southern-Sudan-ebook/dp/B08DP41CVF/ref=sr_1_1

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CBS amazing 12-year journey with Lost Boys of Sudan

NOWADAYS, CBS and BBC are partners. These two film documentaries were produced by CBS 9-10 years ago. In Sudan, war raged then like it does now and has done over past 60+ years. Some things have changed: access to clean safe water is now a human right, access to an education is a human right. Governments have these responsibilities and must be held to account.

CBS News 60 Minutes TV documentary 

By Bob Simon
Broadcast 10 years ago

The Lost Boys, part one 

Apr 1, 2013

Bob Simon first met the Lost Boys in a Kenyan refugee camp in 2001 after they had fled civil war in the Sudan. Some of the young men were relocated to the U.S. -- how are they doing now?

 

Source: CBS News 60 Minutes - YouTube  https://youtu.be/6-R5YNZxj2E

The Lost Boys, part two

Apr 1, 2013

Source: CBS News 60 Minutes - YouTube https://youtu.be/3Qct_fDjiQE

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CBS News 60 Minutes TV documentary - Overtime
By Bob Simon

Broadcast 9 years ago

Our amazing 12-year journey with the Lost Boys

Jan 19, 2014

How a 60 Minutes team fell for the Lost Boys of Sudan and became part of their new family in America.

  

Source: CBS News 60 Minutes - YouTube https://youtu.be/s4I0y0sak8Y

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FULL MOVIE: The Good Lie. The Lost Boys of Sudan

NOTE from Sudan Watch Ed: Here is the opener to the film The Good Lie:

"In 1983, a brutal civil war broke out in Sudan between the North and the South over religion and resources, leaving villages destroyed by northern government armies and militia.

By 1987, thousands of orphaned children began to flee on foot across sub-Saharan Africa, walking as many as a thousand miles to Ethiopia and then Kenya. Thirteen years later, 3600 refugees would be relocated to the U.S.A. They were known simply as “The Lost Boys of Sudan.”

This film is inspired by their story."  

Emmanuel Jal plays the role of Paul. As if he and the others hadn't gone through enough already, in the USA the film's writer, Margaret Nagle plus ALCON and IMAGINE heartlessly tried to deprive them of their full earnings for the film. See below 'Copyright and fraud lawsuit'. Thank God, they won!

Source: The Good Lie - Official Trailer [HD] https://youtu.be/O5mrvffezmM

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From Wikipedia the free encyclopaedia:

The Good Lie is a 2014 American drama film written by Margaret Nagle and directed by Philippe Falardeau. 

Cast

• Reese Witherspoon as Carrie Davis
• Ger Duany as Jeremiah
• Arnold Oceng as Mamere
• Emmanuel Jal as Paul
• Kuoth Wiel as Abital
• Femi Oguns as Theo
• Corey Stoll as Jack
• Sarah Baker as Pamela
• Mike Pniewski as Nick
• Thad Luckinbill as Matt

The Good Lie was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival^[6] before being released on October 3, 2014. Another major screening was held by the Greenwich International Film Festival on October 22, 2014, for the benefit of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.^[7]

Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (United States) Summit Entertainment (International). Running time 110 minutes ^[3]. Countries: United States^[4], India^[1].  Language: English. Box Office: £3.2 million[5].

Copyright and fraud lawsuit

In February 2015, the Foundation for Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan, Inc., acting on behalf of 54 Sudanese refugees, filed a lawsuit in Georgia against writer Margaret Nagle, Alcon Entertainment and Imagine Entertainment. The suit claimed that the refugees were joint authors of the stories they had told Nagle in interviews that she had recorded and used to write the story. It also asserted that a joint venture agreement had been breached, with fraud and other issues arising from a promise of compensation from a producer. 

The US District Judge initially granted the defendants' motion to dismiss but allowed the suit to be refiled if the plaintiffs subsequently and successfully registered copyright of the interviews.

The court ultimately found that the refugees' statements supported the finding of copyright infringement and a permanent injunction on the movie. Before the case could be concluded, however, the plaintiffs' claims were settled out of court.^[12][13][14]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Lie

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Source: 

The Good Lie - Full Movie  https://youtu.be/ArLVndbyz_A 

or this better version includes an update at the end and shows all credits, songs etc:

The Good Lie - Full Movie  https://youtu.be/n73RdoCaEw4

Rent, Buy, Multi-format, DVD, Blu-Ray available at Amazon

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Further reading

Movie Review and Q&A - What happened to Theo? 

https://thegoodliemovie.com/

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