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Gai Thurbil Yat was born on 21st March, 1973 in Malakal, Upper Nile, South Sudan. He attended the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication and received a Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication. He joined the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where he studied and earned a Master of Arts in Media Studies. Gai joined the University of Leeds in England for his Ph.D in Communication Studies. His research interest, includes Media Development in Post- Conflict situations. He has a specialist interest in the History of Media in  Sudan. He has taught journalism at University level in South Sudan. He also worked as an information field assistant for UNICEF in Kenya after his graduation from the college. He did work as a Media Trainer in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the Government of South Sudan. While working in South Sudan, Gai had put a special interest in upgrading the government run television station into a satellite TV station. Now he works in the administration at the University of Leeds, where he has been pursuing his Doctoral research.