Rise Up & Talk: Refugee Radio, Ep. 3
Roads are blocked, forests are crawling with well-armed militias, rural villages are raided regularly for recruits, in episode 3 survivors recount stories of unimaginable resilience and determination on the road from Equatoria, South Sudan to Uganda.
Host Richard Akim, his wife Mary Knight, and colleague Peter Lomude share their stories of when the South Sudan civil war reached their villages.
These are closely guarded stories of loss and survival, as each makes their way south toward the frontier through villages ravaged by violence, menacing government checkpoints, and hostile militia-held regions. By the time they reached Uganda, they are malnourished, exhausted and on the verge of collapse. This is the first time they have shared their stories with the outside world.
Rise Up & Talk, Episode III
South Sudanese refugee producer, filmmaker, community activist and co-founder of Bidi Bidi Media Lab. Richard's work explores conflict and statelessness in northern Uganda’s refugee archipelago.
Award-winning Honduran animator and journalist who received the 2017 Gabriel García Márquez award for Latin American Journalism for his graphic novella "El Hábito de la Mordaza" ("The Habit of Silence"). He is founder of Bilbao Media Lab and co-producer of the Bidi Bidi Media Lab.
