
Refugee Archipelago: Chapter II
Memories from the first days of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement.
German Andino is an award-winning Honduran animator and journalist whose graphic novella “El Hábito de la Mordaza” (“The Habit of Silence”) garnered the 2017 Gabriel García Márquez award for Latin American Journalism in Innovation. He is co-producer of the Bidi Bidi Media Lab.
Memories from the first days of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement.
A graphic work of reportage from Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, West Nile, Uganda.
The short animated film El Héroe Senegalés is an intimate portrait of Mouhammed Diof, an undocumented Senegalese migrant living in Bilbao, who leapt into a river to save someone from drowning and catalyzed a political movement.
Refugees share firsthand accounts of arriving in Uganda, being screened and processed at UNHCR distribution centers, then dropped off in the bush with thousands of other refugees and nowhere else to go.
In episode III of the Bidi Bidi podcast we hear seldom heard stories of survival from refugees on the road from Equatoria, South Sudan to Uganda.
Testimonies from South Sudanese women rebuilding their lives in Zone 2 of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, and an ex-rebel soldier who fled from his past to seek peace in Uganda.
In the first episode of the series we are invited into Bidi Bidi in the West Nile region of Uganda, one of the world’s largest refugee settlements, with storyteller Richard Akim.
Speaking from jail, Prakash Churaman tells his story of incarceration since his arrest at the age of 15 for a crime he didn’t commit.
In early 2020, graphic journalist German Andino and filmmaker Ray Styles were preparing to launch the Bidi Bidi Media Lab in Uganda when Covid-related travel restrictions forced them to improvise and collaborate across thousands of miles to co-produce their first animated film together.
A visual document of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain told through experiences of frontline health care workers.
By German Andino, Jennifer Ávila & Juan Martínez; edited by Alberto Arce; illustrations by German Andino; translated by Andrew Hart Part I: Twenty-One Sons of a Gun It’s been a
During the early 1990s, when cod stocks in Western Newfoundland were on the brink of extinction, a moratorium on fishing caused the “largest mass layoff in Canadian history” and threatened the cultural fabric of coastal communities reliant on the ocean for their livelihoods.