Visual storyteller

JOEL ‘KACHI BENSON

Noah’s Raft

From a young age, Noah Shemede believed that his destiny was in the water. His father, brothers, and uncles were all fishermen, and their fathers before them. This is the life of the average male in Makoko, Africa’s largest floating slum. But after schooling in the city, Noah returns with a dream – to transform […]

In Bakassi

Home to over 35,000 Internally Displaced Persons; Bakassi IDP Camp is one of the most populated IDP Camps in North East Nigeria. Over half of the IDPs are children impacted by Boko Haram’s deadly war in the North East and have little or no access to a proper education.  Displaced from their homes, these orphans […]

Daughters of Chibok

On April 14th 2014,  276 teenage schoolgirls were abducted from their dormitories by the terrorist group, Boko Haram, in Chibok, NorthEast Nigeria. The world watched in shock as videos of the young girls, surrounded by armed terrorists, surfaced on the internet.  Five years on, 112 of the girls remain in captivity.  But Yana Galang, the […]