A Canadian-South Sudanese has been awarded with this year’s Martin Luther King Junior Dream Keeper Award.
Justin Laku, a Central Equatorian who founded the Canadian Friends of Sudan, will deliver his acceptance speech today in Washington DC after being nominated for the award’s seventh edition.He is the first South Sudanese and non-American to receive the prize.
Martin Luther King Junior Dream Keeper Award distinguishes people actively engaged in the defence of ideals of social responsibility, political empowerment, diversity, racial harmony and nonviolence.