Author: Claire
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Kisenyi, part 1
On the eastern shore of Lake Albert is a small town called Kisenyi. To get there, we took a car from Fort Portal around the winding foothills of the Rwenzori and then, unexpectedly and for free, through a game reserve of long, dry-white grass, antelope, guinea fowl and thorn trees. We reached the grubby port…
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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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Anticipation of Fest
The National Arts Festival – Fest – programme for 2012 is out. Yay! I love this time of year. Hours spent pouring over the programme, picking shows and figuring out how we’ll fit them all into just a week (all the time I can take off work). The big shows we’ll book in advance –…