In and Out of Culture: Okot p’Bitek’s Work and Social Repair in Post-Conflict Acoliland

Lara Rosenoff Gauvin
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In 2008, on my fifth visit to Northern Uganda, I was staying with Nyero’s family in Padibe Internally Displaced Person’s (IDP) camp, in what is now Lamwo district. At that time, the cease-fire of the previous year and a half had changed things considerably. People all over Acoliland 1 (Northern Uganda) had begun to return to their villages after a decade of forced displacement into squalid camps, where inhumane conditions killed—according to one study—in excess of about 1,000 individuals per week (UMH 2005). Like much of the 90% of the population who had been forcibly displaced, Nyero’s family was planning to return to their “traditional” village at the end of the year. Finally, land was being cleared, seed sown, water wells checked, gardens planted, grass cut, and huts built. � At the same time, however, Acoli men, women, children, youths, families, and villages struggled to deal with the past two decades of war between President Museveni’s Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group. Forced displacement, confinement, poverty, and social torture (Dolan 2009) by the Government of Uganda, together with brutal abductions and terrorization by the LRA, squeezed the population between the two sides.
文化内外:Okot p 'Bitek的工作与冲突后国家的社会修复
2008年,在我第五次访问乌干达北部时,我和尼罗的家人住在帕迪贝国内流离失所者营地,也就是现在的Lamwo地区。当时,前一年半的停火使情况发生了很大变化。Acoliland 1(乌干达北部)的人们在被迫迁入肮脏的难民营十年后开始返回自己的村庄,根据一项研究,在那里不人道的条件下,每周有超过1000人死亡(UMH 2005)。与90%被迫流离失所的人口中的大多数人一样,尼罗一家计划在年底回到他们的“传统”村庄。最后,清理了土地,播种了种子,检查了水井,种植了花园,割了草,盖了棚屋。然而,与此同时,阿科利的男人、女人、儿童、青年、家庭和村庄都在努力应对过去二十年来穆塞韦尼总统领导的乌干达政府与反叛组织上帝抵抗军(LRA)之间的战争。乌干达政府的强迫流离失所、监禁、贫困和社会折磨(Dolan 2009),再加上上帝抵抗军的残酷绑架和恐吓,将人口挤在了双方之间。
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