David Laker grew up in a war zone.
For much of his childhood in Gulu, a small city in northern Uganda, the civil war waged by the Lord’s Resistance Army meant violence and forced separation for children and their families. He was sent away to boarding school for elementary school and high school, a luxury which many families could not afford.
His grandmother, Mary Ayaa p’Okot, ran the nursing program at the local hospital and his grandfather, Okot p’Bitek, was a renowned author and poet known for the 1966 publication “Song of Lawino.”…