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hunger, dust-storms, war – how I defied the odds as a South Sudanese child refugee

  • Written by: Akuch Anyieth, Graduate researcher, Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, La Trobe University
hunger, dust-storms, war – how I defied the odds as a South Sudanese child refugeeAkuch Kuol Anyieth pictured in Melbourne with her mother Mary.Author provided

My name is Akuch Kuol Anyieth. I am South Sudanese by birth, Kenyan by migration and life experience, and Australian by migration and citizenship.

I spent my childhood and some of my teenage years in Kakuma, a refugee camp in remote, arid, north-west Kenya, near the...

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