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

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

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.

I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children.

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.

It's a small world when you're from South Sudan.

I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.

I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!