Hidden Voices: Urban Refugees is a video produced by the International Rescue Committee and MediaServe International. The short film highlights the daily struggles facing thousands of urban refugees living in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi. In their own words, the refugees tell of how they face poverty, harassment and violence as they make their way in the urban environment.
The video illustrates the many issues highlighted in a new report Hidden and Exposed: Urban Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya which you can read at www.theIRC.org
Special thanks to:
Staff of the International Rescue Committee in Kenya,
Amina Abdi, Amina Bashir, Tsegay Geleta and Kadir Mumad Umer,
Kituo Cha Sheria, Zindua Afrika.
Written by: Joanne Offer & John Gyovai
Cinematography: John Gyovai & Ken Oloo
Editing: John Gyovai Color Correction/Audio Mixing: Team Video
Music: “The Light” The Album Leaf
“Nani, Nani” Neema Ntalel, Kora Award Winner, 2005
All rights reserved
Photography: Peter Biro, IRC, John…
Hidden Voices: Urban Refugees is a video produced by the International Rescue Committee and MediaServe International. The short film highlights the daily struggles facing thousands of urban refugees living in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi. In their own words, the refugees tell of how they face poverty, harassment and violence as they make their way in the urban environment.
The video illustrates the many issues highlighted in a new report Hidden and Exposed: Urban Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya which you can read at www.theIRC.org
Special thanks to:
Staff of the International Rescue Committee in Kenya,
Amina Abdi, Amina Bashir, Tsegay Geleta and Kadir Mumad Umer,
Kituo Cha Sheria, Zindua Afrika.
Written by: Joanne Offer & John Gyovai
Cinematography: John Gyovai & Ken Oloo
Editing: John Gyovai Color Correction/Audio Mixing: Team Video
Music: “The Light” The Album Leaf
“Nani, Nani” Neema Ntalel, Kora Award Winner, 2005
All rights reserved
Photography: Peter Biro, IRC, John…
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Documentary about mobile phone culture in Africa. All material is published under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA). More info at www.uzi.se and www.ict4d.at/helloafrica. Downloadable link at the bottom of this page.
Vyjayanthi Rao (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at The New School for Social Research. Her research focuses on globalization, development, and cities, in particular issues of technology, infrastructure, memory and on the ethics and aesthetics associated with globalization. She is currently working on a book based on her research in Mumbai, titled The Speculative Ethic and the Spirit of Globalization. In this interview, she is analytically comparing the recent(2005) catastrophic events in Mumbai and New Orleans in relation to the globalization, new geographies of risks.
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