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Let us briefly recall the image of Lukole seen from the air in a UNHCR sixseater aeroplane, revealing the humanitarian bureaucrat's dream of red macadam roads making a neat grid, straight lines of blue and white blindés, and the fenced compounds of the humanitarian agencies. We saw how the camp made up not only a tightly organised but also a tightly confined space. However, even from the air one could spot the cracks in the bureaucrat's dream. Footpaths, made by the movement of thousands of pairs of usually bare feet, wound their way through the camp, breaking the strict geometry of UN roads and creating lived space. And it was not only within the camp that rules were defied. The footpaths also sprouted into the bush in all directions, marking in space the fact that refugees did not remain in the seclusion zone, waiting to be fed and waiting for the day they could eventually return home. They fetched firewood, running the risk of being caught by CARE's environment guards or, worse still, by local sungu sungu, Tanzanian vigilante groups. They went to dig fields that they had rented from Tanzanians or they sold their labour to Tanzanian farmers. As these paths faded out and became in

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published

2022

Language

EN