Marial Bai
Marial Bai is a village in Northern [Bahr el Ghazal] state, South Sudan.
Marial Bai lies between the Magadhik River and Chel or Kuru River, which converge to form the Lol River.
It is the real-life hometown of Valentino Achak Deng, the protagonist of the Dave Eggers book, What is the What.
Devastated during Sudan's Second Sudanese [Civil War|second civil war], Marial Bai now benefits from the efforts of the, which has constructed a new Marial Bai Secondary School.