Mumias and the Road to Lodwar
February 7, 2014 In 2010, a driver named Mumias picked me up at Wilson Airport when I returned from South Sudan on AIM Air (Africa Inland Missions). The pilot […]
Tag Archives: Kenya
Flexibility and Mercy
I’m bouncing along a section of potholed road on my way to the UNHCR office in the Westlands area of Nairobi with my driver, Mumias. Jessica Wunderlich stayed behind at […]
Next to the chicken
Killed in battle, Deng Manuon left behind his wife to care for four little girls and a boy. Elizabeth Akuol is the oldest. When her mother died of illness when […]
Learning Something Every Day
I know only enough Dinka to please elders and others by greeting them in their language. I get the greeting words mixed up, so I’m doing my homework now before […]
Kenya, Kiberra Slum Orphan school, Rift Valley
Our driver, the personable and dependable Mumias, who has become a friend during my three trips to Kenya since November, took us to visit his family in their tiny two-room […]
African Soul, American Heart 