Northern Uganda

This started as the on-line journal of Africa Anonymous while she was an Graduate Fellow researching and working in Northern Uganda. You gotta be good. You gotta be strong. You gotta be 2,000 places at once.

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

I want to send this first one to give a better idea of what the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps look like. This photo is taken at Pabo IDP camp, the largest in Northern Uganda. I took this photo from on top of a dirt mound, and these huts line the horizon for as far as the eye can see. As you can tell, these huts are very close to one another, thus fires are frequent and spread fast (people cook in their huts and often brew the gulugulu). Entire families cram into these huts with all their worldly possessions: 7-10 people to a hut. Imagine coming from your own land, where you are self-sufficient, to this tiny hut, where you are living on top of your neighbors. These camps have resulted in the breakdown of family and social structures and you find that men result to drinking the gulugulu, due to idle depression at their inability to provide for their families and the women pick up all the slack.

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