In 1999, Africa’s top resettlement officials filed into a sunlit room in the Joint Voluntary Agency (JVA) compound in Nairobi, Kenya for an important meeting. The topic: Do we resettle the Sudanese “Lost Boys” or the Somali Bantus first? History plays out in such moments, and destinies of thousands of people are shaped and changed. The Sudanese boys would go first. The Somali Bantus would wait three more years. Now, their time has come.