JOHN BUL DAU is a Dinka from Southern Sudan and one of thousands of Lost Boys who fled their homeland during Sudanese civil war. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. In 2001 he, along with around 150 other “lost boys of Sudan,” were resettled in Syracuse, New York after years of walking through hardship that almost exceeds comprehension. The Dinka are the largest ethnic group in southern Sudan. 'Lost Boys' of Sudan Tell Their Story Thousands of children were orphaned and displaced by the Sudanese civil war in the 1980s. The Lost Boys of Sudan are a group of Dinka youth who fled civil war in their native country, spent a decade growing up in a Kenyan refugee camp, and were eventually resettled in the United States. God Grew Tired of Us is a documentary about "The Lost Boys of Sudan" - a group of about 25,000 young men who fled the wars in Sudan since the 1980s. I Came to the U.S over 19 Years ago as a refugee under the program called the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan. In sum, Diary of a Lost Girl is an admirable addition to the genre of African-American autobiography. For warts and all, it represents the unalloyed emotions of an intelligent, defiant, controversial, frequently profane and proud black woman, a survivor who somehow overcame one of the worst childhoods imaginable to share … I, Santino Akot was born in South Sudan which was part of Sudan ( Eastern Africa ). Start studying "Lost Boys" of Sudan. There was about 3,800 Lost Boys and Girls brought to the U.S almost 20 Years ago and I lived in Las Vegas, NV now with my family. He joined 30,000 other Lost Boys of Sudan and walked more than 1,000 miles to find safety at refugee camps. Achak Deng is one of the thousands of Lost Boys of Sudan as a result of the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005) that forced these boys, from the main ethnics groups in, nowadays called, South Sudan: Nuer and Dinka, to leave their home, the home of Mr. Achak Deng was the village of Marial Bai, and began an exhausting … The first sound of gunfire came in the late afternoon while a 10-year-old Gabriel was in the grazing field with his family’s cattle. He found shelter at refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya before coming to Syracuse, New York, where he now lives with his wife and his daughter. Lost Boys of Sudan follows two young Dinka refugees, Peter and Santino, through their first year in America. Sudanese model Anok Yai was studying to be a surgeon in New Hampshire until Instagram changed her life.