Category: Africa
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The Great Rift Valley
Anne JacobsonOak Park, Illinois, United States In the vast, parched desert of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, night fell like an ocean wave, predictable yet unexpected, with weight and substance and astonishing force. The darkness filled our eyes and expanded our lungs, enveloped our salty skin. Each evening the last rays of equatorial sun bathed our…
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Letter from South Sudan: War through a mother’s eyes
Wangira Dorcas OsungaKenya, Nairobi Our village Mading is at the heart of South Sudan. We are 120 miles away from Juba, the capital. We are at the East Bank, fed by the White Nile. The weather is tropical, with a rare wet season. Our land is not green, nor does it bear much fruit. Perhaps that…