In Tanzania’s Nyarugusu camp,Ndayishimiye – who has spent 25 years in nearly perpetual displacement – dreams of the day his life will be his ownNdayishimiye has been a refugee for so long that this state of being has come to define him more than his formal nationality. The 28-year-ancient is from Burundi, but for decades his family has been washed back and forth across porous borders by the waves of violence that regularly batter Africas Great Lakes region.
Since his birth in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1987, or to his present life in an overcrowded camp on the border between Tanzania and Burundi,Ndayishimiye – who does not want to give his full name – has spent more than a quarter of a century in a state of nearly perpetual displacement. Related: Hundreds of lone Burundian children flee to Rwanda Related: 'If I recede, someone else will claim my land': the stark reality of genuine estate in Burundi | Jessica Hatcher Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com