This is my 100th blog post on South Sudan Traveler, and what better way to celebrate it than with some of my favorite pictures of all time. Some you’ve seen in previous blog posts, but many others are brand new (at least to you). I think back to my first time going to South Sudan back in 2010, before it was its own country. I think back to how green I was, but fully aware that I am simply a different shade of green now. My perspectives have changed since that time, but thankfully I have the pictures to document how those perspectives changed. So please enjoy Africa as I’ve seen it over the last five years, from South Sudan to Kenya to Ethiopia. Soon I will have even more. All pictures can be clicked on for a bit larger view. Also, I am beginning to work on a book that will feature the unexpurgated version of Africa you don’t see in the brochure. More on that later.
The watchman in Ethiopia
A boy looks in the window of a polling place shortly before independence in South Sudan.
Making a mask out of bottle tops and an engine fan in South Sudan
The cattle drive.
The look.
A South Sudanese pastor weeps in prayer as he prays that God would make him in private the man he claims to be in public.
The girls at the reform school in Kenya
Linus, our sponsor child’s grandfather, gives his respect as we leave.
The moon setting as dawn approaches in Ethiopia.
praying for a sick child.
Visiting an Ethiopian widow in her home.
A little girl carries her sister in South Sudan
A woman in Ethiopia
Baskets of fresh tea, Kimunye, Kenya
Women carrying thatch for a new roof in Torit, South Sudan.
An old woman in Liliir, South SudanLife in Gojo, Ethiopia
The beautiful village of Panwel, South Sudan
The beautiful Tabitha, who was tragically killed last year in South Sudan. We miss her.
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