Three young men who fled the fighting in South Sudan as boys to grow up and be educated in three different US cities return home. In an emotional journey, they reunite with with loved ones, grieve over those who have died, and offer the skills they acquired in America to help a struggling people.
Jen Marlowe’s reporting in South Sudan, published in The Nation magazine, was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and The Nation Institute Investigative Fund.
Jen MarloweTwitterJen Marlowe is a journalist, a communications associate for Just Vision, the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects, an award-winning author/documentary filmmaker, and a human rights/social justice activist. Her books include The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian’s Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker (2011, Nation Books) and, most recently, I Am Troy Davis (Haymarket Books, 2013).