'Don't Look Back': Author Achut Deng's journey of survival from Sudan to America
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Before she was a teenager, Achut Deng escaped civil war in South Sudan and life in a Kenyan refugee camp. Until recently, she carried that secret history with her.
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| 1:07.0 | This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi. A chute dang was a child living through the |
| 1:12.8 | Sudanese Civil War, fighting for her life as she escaped Sudan to a Kenyan refugee camp. |
| 1:19.4 | She was a teenager when she arrived in the United States as a refugee, and she was a |
| 1:24.4 | mother still carrying the secret weight of her history when she decided to share her story |
| 1:30.2 | with her sons. Imagine that moment. Well, a chute writes about her life in Sudan and |
| 1:37.4 | America in her new memoir Don't Look Back, a memoir of war, survival, and my journey |
| 1:43.3 | from Sudan to America, which she co-wrote with Keely Hutton. And a chute joins us from |
| 1:48.7 | Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Welcome to On Point. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:58.3 | First of all, how are you doing today? I am doing great. A little cold outside, but I'm |
| 2:04.5 | doing well. Okay, good. I wonder if I could just start with this question. Before you |
| 2:14.6 | decided to tell your your sons about your whole story about your life before you came |
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