Nuba Conversations

Ten years after he made his film, Kafi’s Story, with a group of Nuba people from the mountains of Southern Sudan, Arthur Howes was refused a visa by the Islamic government and could not show them his earlier film as he had promised. As the civil war escalated, he went back incognito and made contact with his Nuba friends. In Khartum, in the Nuba mountains and in Kakuma, a refugee camp in Northern Kenya, he engaged with communities isolated from each other struggling to address the issue of survival both as individuals and collectively. They lay testimony to the racial and religious persecutions te Nuba have been through: people expelled from their mountain village,s, children forcibly separated from their parents, men who have suffered terrible torture, and others who have been compelled by poverty to enlist in the very army that’ repressing their people.