When I first began living with a Ugandan family, even in an urban setting, I had trouble sitting still. My body was jittery. The ninth-grade drummer in me couldn’t stop tapping on furniture to break the silence. I sat in a dark room for hours at a time, dwelling in the ambiance of human breath and […]
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The Invisible Story Behind Invisible Children
An article I wrote earlier this year: I was once an overzealous single, but in 2009 my current wife, Suzan Abong of Oyam District, Northern Uganda, changed my mind fairly quickly. We fell in love at Uganda Christian University, and consequently I spent much of my time since then living in her village and collaborating […]