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Learning on the internet
I try to use the Internet to understand the situation I do not get the picture. Every time I see things I try to imagine what it would be like if I was in Bukavu or Beni or maybe somewhere in Congo. I am very interested in computers and I spend a lot of time here. I have learnt a lot.
Wondering about home
Eldoret town, I pass by here while going to school. The town is developed and people walk comfortable and go on with their daily business it makes me wonder a lot how Congo is.
The student's day
First of all I am a student in one of these colleges and I am sponsored. Am not very comfortable letting people know I’m from DRC… they may treat me differently. Many people think am from western Kenya since I have lived in Kenya for over 10 years. I came as a little child and I have lived with nuns. I have never returned to Congo because I have nothing to return to [sighs sadly] anyway this is how my day is like.
Marriage despite war
This picture show us a wedding despite the war, people have not stopped marrying and have not stopped thinking of new projects. People marry despite the war.
Idle and overwhelmed
People are idle and therefore overwhelmed by the situation and decided to indulge in drinking and smoking cigarettes in order to console themselves. They believe that by drinking they can console themselves. They spend all their time in bistros and bars to console themselves.
Children abandoned to their own fate
We see children who are abandoned. These children would be in school. At such time they would be in schools, but following a government that is irresponsible, coupled with the fact that parents are not able to pay school fees for the children, parents send their children to sell eggs, water in town in various markets and instead, children opt to play such games. The children are not taken care of. They are abandoned to their own fate.
Hoping for a solution
Following the failure of politics, people go to various churches to pray, hoping that it is from God that a solution to the problems in eastern DRC will be found. You can tell the kind of churches that you find in in areas with a good record of the war. Because people still know God even in time of war, they still build churches despite their life situation. They hope that by praying in such churches, they can find a solution to their problems.
Living in sub-standard houses
People are living in sub-standard houses, the dirt; people are living in dirty areas. Abnormal life conditions, girls are transporting buckets of water from long distances in order to get water to bathe, prepare meals. Only misery and difficulties surround the life of war survivors from the East.
Same struggle to survive
I am now in Lubumbashi and I am realizing that I am going through the same experiences I lived in back in Eastern DRC. People… people are suffering… people from the East are struggling to survive. They are even doing heavy work to survive, someone is carrying a sack that is weighing a sac that weighs abound 200-300 Kgs while himself weighs around 60-70 kgs.
Food from here
I am comparing food from here and that from my place of origin. Food in my place is produced in abundance and it is cheap.
Returning home
But here, food is very expensive. For that I am contemplating going back home.
Discrimination
In Lubumbashi here there are many people who fled conflict in the East: you have people from Bukavu, Goma who fled the war. But when they are here, locals don’t like them, they are discriminated. Locals are very tribal.
Hospitality of Kindu
I used to get visitors [in KINDU], some of whom we did not know where they came from. They could ask for accommodation, they slept and ate free of charge. But here in Lubumbashi it is hard to get someone to give you even free water, or greet you, it is hard. This is a hotel, someone comes to you for accommodation and you tell them that there isn’t any… then they go to a hotel.
Remembering Kindu
Reminds me of a lake that was where I lived in KINDU… reminds me of our agricultural products and water was helping us in agricultural work. There is also water here in Lubumbashi and it is helping us in many ways.
Back in the truck
I am optimistic that one day Congo will be what it is supposed to be and we may even stop living like refugees [and laughs but with bitterness]. [Note: He says this even though he is an economic migrant with a job working in Eldoret]
River Semiliki
The River Semiliki… it is a very big river and am told it joins the Nile, am not very sure myself… I took it because every time we cross it I feel very sad. As you know Congo is a very big, fertile country and we have a lot of wealth, however the war causes us not to enjoy our country the way we should.
Road to Jinja
It is a photo of the road as we are approaching Jinja in Uganda. I took it because after the border which is a restricted area we cannot take photos and it was at night it is a major town we come to. We pass through very many towns to get to Congo we see many people, many trucks. From here I did not take many photos in Uganda you can be arrested anytime for anything. I fear those police officers they are not like the Kenyan ones who you can easily negotiate a deal.
Black sea
This is a photo of the dark skies and our track Black Sea. I took it to tell the time, most of the time we leave Eldoret at night but before 9pm, we would leave earlier but we spent too much time at the pipeline, and yet once the boss has paid we have a deadline to meet. I wish we could always travel to Kenya and find our orders ready. This is inside our vehicle that is where I spend most of my time and earn from this track of ours known as the Black Sea.
Research design
Empirical research was undertaken in Bukavu or Lubumbashi (DR Congo), Kampala (Uganda), Eldoret (Kenya).