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...