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Naomi Baki (born 1985) is a French and South Sudanese author and advocate for South Sudan. She is a native speaker of the
Kresh language Kresh, also known ambiguously as Gbaya, is a Central Sudanic language of South Sudan. Naomi Baki, a native Kresh speaker who became a French citizen in 2015, has released an autobiography in 2013 in which she describes her Kresh Gbaya environ ...
.


Confronting child trafficking

Welcomed in
France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
as a refugee in 2011 with her daughter Caroline, she became a French citizen in 2015. She has released an autobiography in 2013 (in French), in which she describes her long and difficult journey from bondage to freedom. This book, reviewed in English by scholar Sebastien Fath, has received a wide media coverage, including French TV France 3 and daily ''La Croix'' newspaper. As a motivational speaker, she has been invited in many schools, book fairs and churches to give her testimony. She has also started to travel abroad, including in
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and in the United States (
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), where she is getting known as an advocate against child trafficking. Naomi also wrote a book which carried the message of not being indifferent to other people. Her book "I am still alive" is based on the life of a young
Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...
ese girl.


Fund raising for South Sudan

She has been also actively involved in fund-raising events for women's education in
Wau, South Sudan Wau (; also known as Wow, Waw, or Wau Town) is a town, locally referred to as a city, in northwestern South Sudan on the western bank of Jur River. It is the capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal region in South Sudan. It lies approximately northw ...
(collaborating with the Episcopal Church of South Sudan). These initiatives have been recorded and praised in the Wau Diocese Journal (
South Sudan South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the ...
). Not shy to speak about her Christian faith, she has been interviewed by the French Protestant website ''Regardsprotestants'' in May 2016, stating that being a refugee is not an identity. It is something transitional.


Publications

As a self biography, she published the book ''Je suis encore vivante: Dix ans d'errance du Soudan à l'Europe''.I am still alive


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baki, Naomi 1985 births Living people People from Western Bahr el Ghazal South Sudanese refugees Children's rights activists South Sudanese women's rights activists