Deng Atem, one of the first Lost Boys of Sudan to settle in Phoenix has written a memoir, 'Jumping Over the Ram'
More than 30 years ago, a civil war in Sudan uprooted a generation of children. 20,000 of them were left orphaned or displaced — fleeing to Ethiopia and then walking for thousands of miles to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Half of them died on the journey. The survivors were known as the Lost Boys of Sudan.Nearly 4,000 of them were brought to the U.S. as refugees.Deng Atem was
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