Welcome to the City of Juba, Capital of South Sudan. After splitting from the Arab-dominated Sudan some time ago, the people of South Sudan are building a nation, but nothing truly worthwhile ever comes easy. Strife over economic, religious and ethnic issues have plagued the beautiful but troubled nation of South Sudan. That's why they are constantly on the news...
As a result, a lot of South Sudanese people have moved to places like North America and the United Kingdom in search of opportunity and stability. They're a hardy people whose adaptability and creativity astonishes many. Of course, there's no place like home. Scattered around the globe, the people of South Sudan feel the pull of their homeland, and very few of them can resist it. Meet one of these unique souls...
Bilal Garang is a six-foot-four, lean and athletic brother with a shaved head and skin of a rich mahogany hue. A striking gentleman who's making waves in the Canadian business world. He was born in South Sudan and has spent the past decade living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. Bilal has dual Canadian/South Sudanese citizenship, and a Master's degree in Business from Carleton University, which he has put to good use.
In the City of Ottawa, the business world and the federal government only have room for a certain number of black men in positions of power. Bilal Garang worked hard to make the cut and is starting to reap the rewards. The brother works for KPMG in downtown Ottawa and makes good money, but something's definitely missing. That's why Bilal and his darling wife Nadine Akol decided to spend the summer in Juba City, South Sudan. There's no place like home...
Bilal Garang is a man with a complex life, to say the very least. Although he's handsome and successful, he cannot escape the realities of subtle, passive aggressive racism in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. The Canadian Capital is considered a liberal area but some things never change. White Canadians and other racial minorities have a bad habit of treating people of African descent very poorly.
Racism doesn't go away, it simply changes form or goes underground. One has to always be on the lookout for it. Bilal experienced a lot of that during his studies at Carleton University. To the white Canadians, the tall, dark-skinned and highly intelligent South Sudanese Muslim immigrant was something of a curiosity. Bilal Garang was tall and athletic, didn't play sports, and excelled at academia. They simply didn't know what to make of Bilal.
Bilal Garang had a lot of fun at Carleton University, in spite of the bullshit he experienced. Highly experimental, Bilal had sex with both women and men, and discovered that he was bisexual. Of course, Bilal wanted to marry a woman and raise a family. He respected white Canadians habit of dating members of the same sex exclusively, but definitely preferred women. Nope, when it comes to certain things, experimentation aside, Bilal is a fairly traditional brother.
When Bilal Garang met his future wife Nadine Akol, he simply knew that she was the one. Nadine, a six-foot-tall, brown-skinned beauty with short, curly dark hair and lively golden brown eyes, simply took Bilal's breath away. Bilal has taken lots of gorgeous women to his bed. Black women, Indian women, Chinese women and Latin women. He hadn't bothered with the ladies of his homeland because he knew them to be supremely beautiful but way too conservative...
Nadine Akol was born in the City of Toronto, Ontario, a South Sudanese Muslim father, Ali Akol, and a white Canadian mother, Beatrice Caldwell. As the daughter of two worlds, Nadine has always felt out of place, until she met Bilal. A son of South Sudan who is anything but typical, and a mixed-race young woman born of South Sudan and Canada. They were simply made for each other.
