Tens of thousands of southern Sudanese have returned home in the lead-up to the referendum.
Many of them say they were treated as second-class citizens in the north.
Al Jazeera's Casey Kauffman joined 20-year old Angelo Angwei as he arrived back in his homeland for the first time.
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