Wapi Ndizi yangu!

Getting posters printed this week to send to Sudan.  Mary had to scrape some money together in Juba just to get it done.  Her party, South Sudan Democratic Forum,  does not have very deep pockets like some of the other parties in the competition.  She is a little worried that she won’t be able to [...]

Guess I could have wasted my Sunday in other ways.  Worked on updating bits of my website.  And now am posting it here.

http://www.robrooker.com
This is the front page.  I added some “social” media icons and got rid of those funny photos.  And actually added links that take you somewhere.
This is my “projects” page.  Kinda “portfolio/links/See [...]

My friend sent this to me from Juba today. Mary is already getting in the local news. Woohoo!!

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 [...]

This is a picture of one of my nephews holding a toy he had created that day.  It looked liked it would provide hours of fun if it didn’t fall apart.  All it is is a stick, plastic bottle, plastic lid and piece of twine.  He put a very small hole in the side of [...]

Mary and I returned to Juba on Tuesday.  In less than 24 hours Mary was able to secure a flight to Malakal to participate in the fourth annual celebration of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between southerners and the government of the North.   Its a very big event in the social calendar for Southern Sudan [...]

DNR stands for the initials of the possible name of my new born son.
He was born this morning at around 8:30 through c-section. We had some very stressfull last few days. Mary was in Hospital since Saturday. I am very happy he came, is well and so is the momma.
Here is a [...]