![]() ![]() Over the years, Bok learned to speak and understand Arabic. “I would say I never lost hope because I’m a believer.” Every day, he hoped that someone would come to rescue him. “I may not have anyone to talk to me and to love me but I know God does,” he said.īok said he dreamed of being free and growing up to be like the man his father was. He never saw his parents or sisters again, and learned years later that they were burned alive in the raid on his Southern Sudan village.Īlthough his masters were cruel and spat on and beat Bok daily, he never lost hope. That terrible night in 1986, Bok’s captors took him into Northern Sudan and forced him to be a child slave for an Arab family. “I knew that I couldn’t fight back, because if I do, I would get killed,” Bok said at a recent appearance at the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury. ![]() ![]() Francis Bok, at the Ethel Walker School in Connecticut (Rachel Glogowski/YJI)īok was only seven when his mother sent him to the local market to sell peanuts and eggs for the family and Northern Sudanese men raided the village, viciously slaughtering the men and capturing the women and children.īok, who could only speak his native tribal language as a child, said he couldn’t understand why they hated him. ![]()
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