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Biography
Born in Raga (Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan) in 1985, native Kresh language speaker, Naomi Baki is a French and South Sudanese author and advocate for South Sudan.
Confronting Child Trafficking
Welcomed in France 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 Hungary and in the United States (Texas), where she is getting known as an advocate against child trafficking.
Fund raising for South Sudan
She has been also actively involved in fund-raising events for women's education in Wau, South Sudan (collaborating with the Episcopal Church of South Sudan). These initiatives have been recorded and praised in the Wau Diocese Journal (South Sudan). 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.