{"id":2127,"date":"2020-12-14T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=139220"},"modified":"2020-12-14T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T19:08:00","slug":"being-born-a-refugees-no-joke-but-worse-things-can-happen-ak-dans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/14\/being-born-a-refugees-no-joke-but-worse-things-can-happen-ak-dans\/","title":{"rendered":"Being born a refugee\u2019s no joke, but\u00a0worse things can happen: AK Dans\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Irrepressible comedian AK Dans was born in the world\u2019s largest refugee camp,\u202fKukuma, in Kenya, after his mother fled South Sudan in the 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u2019s now a successful stand-up artist \u2013 or was – until the COVID-19<\/a> crisis put a\u00a0temporary halt\u00a0to his live shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n But you can\u2019t keep a good man down for long, and now AK\u2019s latest challenge is taking part in an online show with the support of UN refugee agency, UNHCR<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n