Wapi Ndizi yangu!

I tried to get a better shot than this, but was not very successfull.  I was feeling shy to take a photo.   So I was trying to be covert and take” photos” of my wife.
Anyhow, these are the best  I got.  Notice the two little pickup trucks in the background.  They have been turned up [...]

My wife and a number of Sudanese women got together on Tuesday and held a demonstration to support  Lubna Hussein and other Sudanese activists fighting for the rights of women in Sudan.
Here is a note she pasted on Facebook in regards to the event:
On Tuesday Sudanese women in Kenya made a demonstration in support of [...]

Lubna Hussein was arrested in Khartoum, Sudan several weeks back for wearing trousers. Although now the government is saying, “no it wasn’t the trousers, she was just being loud and obnoxious“. That is a slight paraphrase. She faced getting 40 lashes and paying a hefty fine.  The court decided to only give [...]

I don’t do alot of posts like this.  But its saturday, I’m a little bored and there has been some interesting things taking place.
1 – Riots in Uganda. This has been going since Tuesday or Wednesday and is only now starting to getting a little bit of widespread attention in the press.  Think there is [...]

Today i should have had my camera with me. We decided to take the family out of the house to enjoy the afternoon. It was sunny and almost hot. Haven’t seen so many days like that lately.
We went with no plan and just drove. I decided to head in the [...]

It felt almost cold when I stepped off the plane. Not too cold, but cold enough to throw on an extra layer or wear some long sleeves if one wanted. I havn’t felt cool like that for a long time.
A friend of mine hooked me up with a caravan flight from Juba to Nairobi last [...]

About a week ago I took a series of photos one morning in an attempt to illustrate driving conditions here in Juba.  Click on the photos below to go see the whole album.
Hash over at White African has a nice little post about riding a chinese motorcycle around for a day in Kenya.  In Southern [...]

Its hot. forgot how boiling this country can get in February.
I came to Juba a week ago.  Was thinking would only be here for about four days, but the days have stretched into a few more than that.  If things went well for my wife today, then we can actually look at leaving [...]