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Archive for the ‘Child Soldiers’ Category
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Photo/graphica
In recent years the graphic novel has morphed into an alternative medium for non-fiction storytelling. From Art Spiegelman’s Maus which documented his father’s experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor, to Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis which details the author’s life…
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Picturing inequality
Today I spoke to CBC’s Robyn Bresnahan about how I came to take the photograph that won the Africa category in the World Bank’s international Picture Inequality photo competition. The picture shows female former child soldier Christine waiting to get…
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It’s not about guns – it’s about educating people
David Lomeling used to be a child soldier in South Sudan’s SPLA – then he became a journalist.
In the summer of 2012, as I taught a hands-on photojournalism course to reporters at Radio Miraya in South Sudan, David told…
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New beginnings
Featured in Toronto Star, 8 September 2012.
In the summer of 2011 Vancouver-based photojournalist Marc Ellison interviewed 40 formerly abducted women in Uganda about their post-abduction difficulties. As a part of the project, Ellison gave five of the women digital…
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Let them come out
Colonel Joseph Balikuddembe is not a man to be envied.
But for a man charged with hunting down one of Africa’s most wanted, the Lord Resistance Army’s Joseph Kony, the Ugandan colonel seems disconcertingly at ease. He sits under a…
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O God, you know what I was
So began Jennifer’s prayer.
We are sat in her small, dimly lit tukul in Gulu with heads bowed, thunder rumbling in the distance a reminder that the rainy season is upon us. Her children play outside, the wind whipping up…
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How do you reconcile the two sides of Alice?
The article in many ways felt like a book end, a final closing chapter on the research I did in Uganda last summer.
The piece, which was featured last weekend as part of the Toronto Star’s Childhood Interrupted series,…
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The Missive
The path was somewhat circuitous, but the scrawled, handwritten plea for help from Christine eventually found its way into my email inbox.
Christine was one of 40 female former child soldiers I worked with last summer in northern Uganda.
I’ve tried to keep…
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StopKony? No. #StartReading.
I wrote an opinion piece earlier this week for OpenFile Otatwa (see below).
It got a staggering 4,000+ hits and over 1,400 shares.
But more importantly it generated some heated discussion in the page’s comments discussion. Good to see at least…
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The borehole
A trip to the borehole to fetch water for cooking and laundry is just an everyday part of the Afro-scape.
Small children and women carry the unwieldy 20-litre jerrycans up to 4 times a day on their heads or between…
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SneakPeek
It was like meeting an old friend – but instead of being face-to-face, this time Janet and I could only look at each other through a plasma screen.
This week I’ve finally made some time to dig out my platoon…
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A Ugandan Update
Poor internet connectivity is just a way of life in rural Patongo. If you’re lucky enough to have power, then chances are you’ll still only get a signal barely strong enough to load the most ‘light’ of web pages. Forget…
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A promise kept
“Why should I talk to you?”
The question from Jennifer, a female former child soldier in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) who I’d introduced you to a few months ago, was one I’d been dreading. Researcher fatigue was an issue…
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[retro]spect + [pro]spect
It’s been almost a full week since my return from northern Uganda and South Sudan.
A week of boda-less city streets and hot showers on demand. A week of welcome inactivity to catch up with loved ones, to catch up…
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flick-a-vision: lira labyrinth
Fearless.
That’s probably the best way to describe 20-year old Janet.
I met with her for the final time this week. We spent the day together just hanging out. She made me odii (peanut paste) and cassava for lunch before…