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When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

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

When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there.

I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.

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

From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.