Africulture Celebration March 2017
Sydney has a small but vibrant African community..most of them arriving from the horn of Africa region via the massive UNHCR refugee transit camp in Northern Kenya known as Kakuma (Swahili for No where). These people have fled everything. Al Quaida /Al Shabab, civil war, famine and as in Somalia, a country run by war lords; total lawlessness.
The stories of how these people get to Kakuma are heroic and involve walking for months through hostile country and then into Kakuma (Pop 75,000) where the average stay verges upon seven years. Stories of separated families finally being reunited at Kakuma abound and from there they await relocation.
Those who have made it to Australia and settled in Sydney have over the last 3 years held a celebration of African culture which is based on promotion of there food and fashion.
Unfortunately it doesnt get the attention from the Australia's anglo/european population it deserves, because it is one hell of an outing. It was most humbling to have strangers come up to me to thank me for coming.
Read MoreThe stories of how these people get to Kakuma are heroic and involve walking for months through hostile country and then into Kakuma (Pop 75,000) where the average stay verges upon seven years. Stories of separated families finally being reunited at Kakuma abound and from there they await relocation.
Those who have made it to Australia and settled in Sydney have over the last 3 years held a celebration of African culture which is based on promotion of there food and fashion.
Unfortunately it doesnt get the attention from the Australia's anglo/european population it deserves, because it is one hell of an outing. It was most humbling to have strangers come up to me to thank me for coming.
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