Since I started my new job I have tried to find an excuse to ‘engineer’ an opportunity to travel up to Karamoja and visit our field office there. The slight obsession is perhaps due to the opportunity to travel to somewhere fascinating that I would never go if not for work. As a monitoring and evaluation person working from head office I would read these amazing stories from our work there about cattle raiding, warriors, reformed rapists and a land that seemed a fantasy from the comforts of Jinja let alone the UK. Admittedly, there was probably something of the thrill-seeking in me that wanted to experience somewhere deemed ‘dangerous’. As much as I knew there was a lot of hyperbole about the danger of going up there, as the time approached I did find myself
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