Tag: Uganda
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Gulu
I don’t know what I expected. Something different. Something less ordinary. Two of us sat, on a Wednesday night, and watched people cautiously, nervously moving up and down the road in the flickering light of a garbage fire. An hour earlier we had been sitting on the flat rooftop of a run-down hotel, watching the…
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Falling for Fort Portal
I lost my heart in Western Uganda to a small town set amidst emerald tea fields in the blue shadow of the mountains of the moon. We travelled up from Kampala by bus on a hot, sticky summer’s day. The road wound up and up, past pampas fields and random felt until, slowly, we found…
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The girl in the red dress
The girl in the red dress is beautiful. She’s has engaging, dark, laughing eyes. She is shy. Her smile sneaks up and rushes across her face and makes everyone around her smile, too. She brightens a room without trying. The girl in the red dress hasn’t had it easy. She’s been through some of the…