Last Visit to the Gulf of Aden Part 3

With a wad of khat wadded discreetly in his cheek, his calloused fingers inched the volume up on the SUV’s stereo. A USB stick plugged into a cigarette lighter adaptor fed blaring traditional Somali lute classics over the worn speakers.

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Why I Made a COVID-19 Horror Movie

Coronut is an expression of my anxieties documented during a family vacation we took during the first lockdown phase of COVID-19 in 2020. It's a carnival grotesque, if you will, inspired by The Blair Witch Project, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, and Albert Camus' The Plague.

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Acequia Part 1: Introducción

The first time this movie was screened it was on the back wall of Tijeras church for the East Mountains of New Mexico’s centennial celebration. Ten minutes before the start of the show the entire ...

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Of Crime and Camels

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkSwrGHorfY&w=425&h=349; float=”left”]   A few days ago, in the late afternoon, two men stopped a taxi driver at a junction in Soweto East, Kibera. They were thieves running from a crime and needed a ...

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There’s a Hole in the Bucket

I’m sitting in a ramshackle compound in Silanga village, one of the deepest and most neglected areas of Kibera slum, with an impossible task. As one of the Water and Sanitation health workers on this ...

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Slumming it in Kibera

A year later and I’m back in East Africa. This time I’m working on Water Sanitation and Hygiene research for my University in Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Kibera is one of the largest slums in the ...

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