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‘I started writing poetry because I had no other way to speak’: interview with poet and refugee Peter Kidi
August 21, 2025
After his family fled conflict in South Sudan, Peter Kidi was born in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya – where he has spent his entire life. Today, he writes powerful poems about life in the camp; poems that are, as he says, written ‘from the inside not as a subject, but as a witness and creator’. Now his work is winning international attention, notably a collaboration with the UK’s London School of Economics that will lead to a publication later this year. He speaks to FP2P about his life, his art and what his community wants from international aid organisations.
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