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South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.

I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.

I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.

I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.

I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.

Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.