I posted this a long time ago on another blog, but just thought I'd post it again after seeing the film and seeming to just run into people associated with it everywhere I go. Anyway - cool trailer.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
I was talking to someone the other day and they were telling me a story about a teacher who's wife and child were murdered in front of him by a rebel during the war here in Liberia. After the war was over the teacher was teaching in a war rehabilitation school, and one day he noticed that the boy who killed his wife and child was sitting at a desk in his class.
The lesson went on.
These kinds of stories are everywhere here.
Our western ideologies of justice are shattered by a country that although having faced some of the most dehumanising and horrific years of brutality and war in recent history, institutes a Truth and Reconciliation Commission with the threefold goals of reconciliation and forgiveness for both ex combatants and their victims, assistance and aid to those affected by the war and then also a platform from which the truth about the conflict is spoken by those involved instead of a criminal court, in order to attempt to restore Liberia to some sense of where she was before any of this began.
Awesome.
TRC of Liberia Website
Monday, November 3, 2008
Clarke
This is my friend Clarke.
Clarke works as a security guard at the place where I was staying in Congotown, but in his spare time he teaches classes to the kids in his community who can't afford to go to school. Anyway, last Saturday he invited me to his place again and told me to bring my camera this time to take some photos, so here's some of those.
This one is taken inside the kinda communal cooking area/corridor in the middle of where a lot of the homes in the community 'compound' area are built. This is also where Clarke teaches classes everyday to up to 70 (!) kids.
Kids......yussssssss.
And this last one is of me spoiling mouth with Clarke and my other friend Marley - just to prove I'm there too :-)
Clarke works as a security guard at the place where I was staying in Congotown, but in his spare time he teaches classes to the kids in his community who can't afford to go to school. Anyway, last Saturday he invited me to his place again and told me to bring my camera this time to take some photos, so here's some of those.
This one is taken inside the kinda communal cooking area/corridor in the middle of where a lot of the homes in the community 'compound' area are built. This is also where Clarke teaches classes everyday to up to 70 (!) kids.
Kids......yussssssss.
And this last one is of me spoiling mouth with Clarke and my other friend Marley - just to prove I'm there too :-)
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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