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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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.
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...
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.
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,...
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...
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...