In this very special episode Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle Press, Yuot A. Alaak shares his refugee experience and talks about the importance of sharing real and nuanced African stories with Rebecca Higgie

Episode 15 June 01, 2020 00:34:33
In this very special episode Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle Press, Yuot A. Alaak shares his refugee experience and talks about the importance of sharing real and nuanced African stories with Rebecca Higgie
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In this very special episode Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle Press, Yuot A. Alaak shares his refugee experience and talks about the importance of sharing real and nuanced African stories with Rebecca Higgie

Jun 01 2020 | 00:34:33

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Claire Miller Helen Milroy Georgia Richter Brooke Dunnell

Show Notes

In this touching episode of Love to Read Local radio, debut author Yuot A. Alaak (Father of the Lost Boys) talks about his refugee experience, and how his memoir tells the story of his family, especially of his inspiring father who led 20,000 lost boys towards a brighter future during the Second Sudanese Civil War.
He also mentions the power of storytelling, and its importance in African society. For him, stories were a way of distracting himself from the hardships of reality, and to keep hope alive. He says that it’s important that real and nuanced stories about Africa are being shared that depicts its beauty and the hospitality of its people, rather than the imagined, ‘dark continent’ that it’s often portrayed as.
Music: ‘Letter to a Daughter of St George’, from the Meat Lunch EP: Songs from Floaters. Written by Alan Fyfe. Performed by Trevor Bentley (guitar and vocals – @trevormb) and Chris Parkinson (harmonica). Produced by Blake Carnaby of Nuglife studios with impresario work by Benjamin P. Newton.
Producer: Claire Miller
Mastered and edited by: Aidan d’Adhemar
Sponsor: This show was made possible with a grant from the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund
 
 

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