by Richard | Mar 5, 2011 | Africa, Journalism, Photography, Politics, Travel, Uganda
It’s December 10 and Tom, Saskia and I have come to the half-completed Karin Children’s Clinic to watch a local women’s group hold a weekly meeting to discuss administrative matters. They manage projects from beadmaking to raising livestock on a...
by Richard | Feb 22, 2011 | Africa, Journalism, Travel, Uganda
Everena Okott (67) finishes speaking in the partial indoor light. Geoffrey translates politely, “She says, as you can see, the small lights here (he points to the ceiling) these were bullets and they were firing… that’s what she says… There is no one to get up there...
by Richard | Feb 12, 2011 | Creative Writing, Europe, United Kingdom
It’s late and my eyes burn a little. My clock says its sometime after midnight. It feels like it’s always sometime past midnight, but there are journal articles to be read. Things to learn. It’s the third week into my Masters in Media Studies at...
by Richard | Jan 23, 2011 | Africa, Journalism, Photography, Travel, Uganda
In five hours it will be time to get up for introductory lectures, but every late night hour working on editing pictures has been worth it. Most of the pictures have stories, and many of those stories will be told in coming posts – just as soon as Telkom...
by Richard | Jan 9, 2011 | Africa, Reflections, Travel, Uganda
It’s late, and I’m tired, and I can’t get back to sleep. So I am up and writing again. Sifting through thoughts that come in the nights, when the day and all of its distractions have passed. I’m back in South Africa again. At last. I arrived...
by Richard | Dec 30, 2010 | Africa, Journalism, Travel, Uganda
When we arrived in Gulu, we spent only one night in the place we had booked to stay in. A serendipitous confusion of a lost booking and an entire house becoming cheaply available near the Kabero Opong district meant that we would relocate lock, stock and sleeping bag...
