south sudan street survivors

South Sudan is the newest nation in the world and to say it is experiencing many challenges is an understatement: corruption in government, violence on the streets, and extreme poverty don't begin to cover it.

South Sudanese blind musician, General Paolino, is something of a legend there. During fifty years of civil war with their northern Arabic rulers, the black African southerners found solace in his words. He chronicles their struggles in his songs and has become known as "The blind Bob Marley".

Featuring Mama Celina, an extraordinary singer from the Madi tribe of South Sudan, and recorded in an unfinished building on a construction site, with Paolino using a guitar pick hand-cut from a plastic bottle and playing the acoustic nylon-string he calls "my only friend - my husband", the album offers extraordinary songs with titles that speak for themselves.