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Nyangeth remembers hearing a loud explosion as she was at the market center in Pachenjok, a small village in South Sudan. Initially, it was one explosion and then they increased. Loud explosions that made the ground shake beneath her feet along with constant cracking sounds. This sound was new to her despite the fact that […]
South Sudan has always had a special place in my heart in relation to my photography career. When I resigned from my first job and decided to pursue photography, my first foreign assignment was to cover the elections in South Sudan. I remember I almost didn’t make it because I lacked sufficient funds and […]
"The only weapon that we have in our hands…is the weapon of protest. That’s all. " – Martin Luther King Jr On 25th November 2014, protesters from all walks of life gathered outside President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Harambe House office. Their mission, to protest the state of insecurity in Kenya. The call to protest, made […]
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” – John F. Kennedy Recently, I was out on a humanitarian assessment mission to Marka; a town in the Lower Shebelle region of Somalia. The assignment entailed accompanying officials from various humanitarian organizations who were evaluating the humanitarian situation on […]
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” – Oprah Winfrey During war or conflict the one group of society that experiences insurmountable torment and suffering is children. If they are not kidnapped and used as child soldiers or sex slaves by militias and rebels, they end up in camps, separated from […]
This is a blog of many firsts. My first blog in 2014, my first time to blog about this very serious issue that is affecting women and also the first blog without a quote. Sometimes as a photographer you’ll undertake assignments that are very exciting, some will be very boring and then there are others […]
" There’s no hope without endeavour. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to get that we do need to have friends. " Aung San Suu Ky The one thing that I have learnt thus far as a freelancer is the importance […]
" We must accept finite disappointment, but NEVER lose infinite hope. " – Martin Luther King Jr. Take a moment and imagine this, You wake up one morning and your mother is nowhere to be seen. In the dead of night, she packed and left. Your sole provider. Your closest confident, friend and only […]
The highest of distinctions is service to others.- King George IV It’s been a while since I blogged and I sure have missed it. It has been a crazy busy first quarter and I thank God for that. Following the completion of my contract as Community Manager at Pawa254, I got back to my […]
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. – Martin Luther King On January 10th 2013, in the dead of night during an extended parliamentary session, a handful of Kenyan MPs decided that they needed to award themselves ludicrous send-off packages. Not only did […]