Aldo Deng is a former Sudanese politician and father of several professional basketball players.
In 1988, Deng sent his wife and children to Alexandria to avoid the escalating Second Sudanese Civil War.
The next year, Omar al-Bashir led a military coup that took control of the government, and Deng was arrested at gunpoint, spending three months in prison.
Shortly afterwards, he travelled to Egypt to collect his family, and they settled in South Norwood, London.
[2] After the end of the civil war in 2005 and the independence of South Sudan in 2011, he returned to serve on the committee that wrote the new country's constitution.