While I was researching The Good Braider, I met many teens and elders, but I met a lot of children, too. They were experiencing lives brand new to them in American cities. Then, when I was visiting Kakuma refugee camp on the Kenyan/South Sudanese border, I saw a […]
(c) Paul Winter, in Kakuma Refugee Camp The site AllAfrica.com reports that the government of Kenya intends to close refugee camps within its borders. The largest camps are Kakuma, where I traveled in January this year, and Dadaab, and they house nearly 600,000 people, according to the article […]
I have just returned from a journey from Nairobi to Kakuma village in the northern Turkana district of Kenya. Beside the village in this semi arid region is the Kakuma refugee camp currently the home of nearly 100,000 refugees from South Sudan and Somalia as well as other […]
January 4, 2013 Hello from Nairobi. I’m doing an experiment. Very hard. I finished the books I brought. A book I bought on Kindle didn’t show up on my ipad and who knows how long I can keep a charge. For a few days I am staying at […]
The Salvation Army Store looked like it was open on January 1st, the day before I leave for Kenya. I stopped and sure enough, it was. It was a vast store with an entire room of books and old record albums. Among the books were ones I was […]
Now that I have some books among my Deet and malaria pills as I head to Kenya, the journey is richer. When I read the premise of Graham Greene’s Journey Without Maps, I wanted that with me. To that I’m adding Oil on Water set in Nigeria by Helon […]
It’s immersion time, six days before I leave for Kakuma. Immersion into what I can find Kenyan in New Hampshire. I found “The First Grader,” the story of a old village man who wants to go to school for the first time in his life. I am watching […]
Paul Winter, of the organization Scottie’s Place, posted this photo on a blog post. It is dated December 13, 2013. You can read the post, Life in Kakuma Refugee Camp. Scottie’s Place is an American-based nonprofit organization working to support the education of girls and young women […]
The Sudanese People in the Sutherland Shire – a Moving Community Oral History Project. A community in Australia has organized an oral history project with Southern Sudanese people who have resettled there from Sudan and members of the community who assist them in resettlement. Many voices and generations are […]
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