During violence between the Nuer and Dinka tribes, her mother moved the family to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, when Anyieth was aged five years.
[1] Her mother had three more siblings, Deng, Yom and Thon who all died young, before giving birth to Akuch, just as war broke out between Nuer and Dinka tribes.
[1] To escape the conflict, the family moved to Kidepo, in Eastern Equatoria, where her mother gave birth to her brother, Gai, and her father joined the Sudan People's Liberation Army.
[2][4] Book reviewer, Steve Dow, writing in The Guardian, praised Anyieth for her unflinching honesty as she described her experience of family violence.
Her book documents Anyieth's journey, and her perceptions about the Australian media reporting about African men and how they are over-policed in Australia.