Category Stories

Tarach the deadly river.

One of the dangerous features of Kakuma is the seasonal River Tarach, which flows during every heavy rain. The river flows very strongly for 3-8 hours with muddy water that is very dense and unsafe for drinking because it carries…

My painful request

Please stop enslaving my mind. The little knowledge I have gathered from bits and pieces scattered everywhere taught me one thing:I am enslaved in my mind.That is why I’m asking: Do you love or hate me?No one seems to speak truthfully.…

Unauza? (Are you selling?)

A very short question that means a lot to young men and women here in Kakuma. A lot of people have chosen to live humble lives here, in the refugee camp. Myself included.This question can do many things to a…

Al-gorop (Prosopis Juliflora) or Starvation?

The world is beautifully heading to the core of the 4th industrial revolution where artificial intelligence is the talk of the day, but what pains me the most is not how this is happening but the fact that, I thought I…

Kakuma

I had always taken Kakuma to be a place more of a hell then it should be, but as the days pass by it has helped in sharpening my visions for the future. It has made me look back home…

The Survival Technique

Just like a the South Sudanese-Canadian artist Emanuel Jal who happens to have been born in my own home town of Tonj, sang that, “…there were a day that a life was so rough thing became tough and if someone…