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Basketball legend Manute Bol has good reason to be angry: in Sudan's north-south civil war, more than 250 family members were killed and his home town was razed to the ground.Yet he speaks of reconciliation rather than revenge, with plans not only to build schools in his native south Sudan -- but also to make peace with bitter enemies from the still war-torn western region of Darfur.

My dream is to build schools all across south Sudan, because with education you can live your life, get a job, improve," said Bol, settling his giant seven foot seven inch (231 centimetres) frame beneath the shade of a tree."But we must also support the people of Darfur, because they, like us, are suffering the same," added Bol -- the tallest player in America's National Basketball Association (NBA) history along with Romanian Gheorghe Muresan.Bol was an iconic basketball shot-blocker, becoming perhaps Sudan's most famous son

Oil-rich south Sudan was left in ruins by the 22-year civil war, as rebels battled northern government soldiers and militia forces, many recruited from poverty-stricken Darfur, and who were then actively encouraged to commit atrocities.