Did you also meet the night commuters immortalised in your song “Noh Gulu150,000 people live in Gulu, a large metropolis situated in northern Uganda. more” (To Gulu150,000 people live in Gulu, a large metropolis situated in northern Uganda. more)?
As we were leaving the camp, a little girl came up to me and tugged on my arm. She said “Please Mr, don’t forget”. I gave her my promise, although I spent a long time thinking about what I could actually do.
I can appear in the media, tell people about it and talk like an expert, but they’ll just flick to another channel. It won’t stay in people’s minds. So I wrote a song about it and talked about it a lot on stage, well, as much as was possible at a concert.
When I realised that my friend Manfred Hell, the head of Jack Wolfskin, was very interested in the topic, I asked him whether he’d like to go with me. And in 2007, he did.
On the first evening he felt exactly the same as I did three years before.
The civil war had settled down somewhat in the meantime; negotiations were continuing since 2006. But the situation in the refugee camps was still very depressing. It was unclear whether the conflicts would flare up again or whether Joseph KonyJoseph Kony is one of the most wanted militia leaders in the world. more would return. It is still impossible to say when the conflict in North UgandaThe average elevation of the Republic of Uganda is 1,000 metres above sea level in the Central African Highlands. more will end.
Since the start of the peace negotiations, there had at last been no more large attacks and people felt able to leave the camps, return to their villages and tend their fields.
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The supply situation in North UgandaThe average elevation of the Republic of Uganda is 1,000 metres above sea level in the Central African Highlands. more
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Young mothers in North UgandaThe average elevation of the Republic of Uganda is 1,000 metres above sea level in the Central African Highlands. more |