Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye
My inner child is not wounded.
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.
War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.