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Chapter 6 Ethiopia
October 25, 20192

Refuge#34 Bus Stop Trail

Previously in Refuge#33 Armed with a Torch in Dadaab: Otholi described the challenges of living at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. On 10 March 2010, Otholi, Ariet and...

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Chapter 6 Ethiopia
October 18, 20196

Refuge#33 Armed with a Torch in Dadaab

Otholi describes the challenges that his people, the Anuak, faced at the Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, and how he worked as a guard for community security.

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Chapter 6 Ethiopia
October 11, 20191

Refuge#32 The Price of Oil

Previously in Refuge#31 Ethiopian Borderlands: Otholi describes how his homeland was divided into two by the British during colonial times. As a consequence of this...

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Chapter 6 Ethiopia
October 4, 20192

Refuge#31 Ethiopian borderlands

Otholi talks about the fertile Gambella plains in Ethiopia, and how the Anuak lived as one people before the demarcation the Sudanese and Ethiopian border.

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Asylum Seekers & Refugees
July 10, 20182

Attending to Stories of Trauma

This is Otholi Okwot. In front of him are a few items from his ancestral homeland Gambella in south west Ethiopia.   When he and his family were still living in Ethiopia,...

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The Curious Scribbler
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
September 25, 20150

Armed with a torch

During our second interview for the book, Otholi showed me the bowl, cup and jug,  decorated with beadwork by his wife Ariet, that his family had brought from Ethiopia. He...

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Asylum Seekers & Refugees
September 11, 20150

The land was really good

‘The land was really good,’ says Otholi. He smiles as he says this, enunciating the words slowly, drawing them out, lingering on his memory of the land, the...

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