by blog-nelson | Dec 16, 2013 | Enemies Project
Last week I got a call during dinner from a Sudanese man who is working to promote peace on the border of Sudan and South Sudan. He had found my blog posts about visiting the border area in South Sudan just after it became a country, and he said that it was the...
by blog-nelson | Oct 9, 2011 | Enemies Project
S. Sudan woman walking on road This post is from the first trip for my ENEMIES Project. Warawar – an ominous name for a town in a country that is coming out of decades of civil war and genocide. Add to that the fact that Warawar also happens to sit...
by blog-nelson | Oct 7, 2011 | Enemies Project
This post is from the first trip for my ENEMIES Project. Cows are everything in South Sudan. At least if you want to get married they are. Here, as in much of Africa, men pay a dowry to their future wife’s family in livestock, and in S. Sudan...
by blog-nelson | Oct 5, 2011 | Enemies Project, Writings
This post is from the first trip for my ENEMIES Project. I love the airport in Aweil, South Sudan. A thatched grass hut, with a giant hanging fish scale to weigh the luggage. Wouldn’t it be great if our airports could be so simple? South Sudan was...
