East4South: Subjective Ugandan Dictionary

The East4South programme brings together young journalists from Eastern Europe with experienced journalists from Africa to produce stories together. Now in its third cycle, 10 Eastern European journalists are about to travel to Africa in the next few months to work with their African counterparts.

Balazs Simonyi is a freelance Hungarian photojournalist and filmmaker. Through the East4South programme he travelled to the Gulu district in northern Uganda and to Mayuge in the south-east where he worked with Joshua Kyalimpa on two video stories. One was about rehabilitation of former child soldiers, the other examined fishing and how fish caught in Victoria Lake end up on European dinner tables.

For a guest blog post Balzas wanted to write up his East4South experience in Uganda in what he calls a Subjective Ugandan Dictionary. But Balzas has also produced some wonderful photographs, so we decided to combine his photos and text and produce a slideshow.