Naomi Baki | |
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| Born | 1985 (age 38–39) |
Naomi Baki (born 1985) is a French and South Sudanese author and advocate for South Sudan. She is a native speaker of the Kresh language.
Confronting child trafficking
Welcomed in France as a refugee in 2011 with her daughter Caroline, she became a French citizen in 2015. She has released an autobiography in 2013 (in French), in which she describes her long and difficult journey from bondage to freedom. [1] This book, reviewed in English by scholar Sebastien Fath, [2] has received a wide media coverage, including French TV France 3 [3] and daily La Croix newspaper. [4] As a motivational speaker, she has been invited in many schools, book fairs and churches to give her testimony. She has also started to travel abroad, including in Hungary [5] and in the United States ( Texas), where she is getting known as an advocate against child trafficking. [6]
Naomi also wrote a book which carried the message of not being indifferent to other people. Her book "I am still alive" is based on the life of a young Sudanese girl. [7]
Fund raising for South Sudan
She has been also actively involved in fund-raising events for women's education in Wau, South Sudan (collaborating with the Episcopal Church of South Sudan). These initiatives have been recorded and praised in the Wau Diocese Journal ( South Sudan). [8] Not shy to speak about her Christian faith, she has been interviewed by the French Protestant website Regardsprotestants in May 2016, stating that being a refugee is not an identity. It is something transitional. [9]
Publications
As a self biography she published the book Je suis encore vivante: Dix ans d'errance du Soudan à l'Europe. [10]
References
- ^ Je suis encore vivante (Paris, Le Cerf, 2013). The title's meaning in English is "Still Alive".
- ^ " An amazing South Sudan refugee's testimony published in France" (10th of June, 2013)
- ^ Interview on France 3 Channel, Picardie (6 October 2013)
- ^ Portrait of Naomi Baki in french Newspaper La Croix, "Du Soudan à la France, le long calvaire de Naomi Baki" (La Croix, 15 October 2013).
- ^ See this 2016 video in which Naomi Baki shares her testimony in English (translated in Hungarian)
- ^ See Naomi Baki's web page
- ^ I am still alive
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^ See for example this report available on the Anglican Website of Wau Diocese, Easter 2016: "
Third fund-raising event in France for Wau ECSS Educational Program"
- ^ Naomi Baki, "Being a Refugee..." 30 May 2016, interview published in French by Regardsprotestants.com
- ^ I am still alive
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