Akol Meyan Kuol

1974

--- The poet Akol Meyan Kuol was born in 1974 in the oil-rich region of Abyei, Southern Sudan. He was taken to Khartoum in the North in 1978 due to the political instability in the area which is still continuing up to the present time. He did his studies in the North and deserted the country in 1993. -- He was in the Middle East/North Africa, South Africa, Tanzania and he is now based in Nairobi, Kenya. Akol started to publish his poetry in Sudan since 1992. He published widely; in Egypt, the UK, the US and Kenya. He published two collections of poems entitled 'The Sun

• A case for the capacity of southern Sudanese to rule themselves
• Sudan
• The last train
• The sun will be rising