Unity High: Part 2

Kerning Cultures

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Last year, our producer Darah Ghanem stumbled upon an obscure blog on a nearly forgotten corner of the internet. On it were hundreds of historic photographs of a Christian missionary school in Khartoum called Unity High School. But as she looked closer, she started to see something else: the blog's writers were trying to tell the world about an alleged corruption scandal that they thought had taken place at the school nearly a decade ago. This week on Kerning Cultures, a story of loose ends, conflicting sources, and half-truths. Part 2 of 2.

This episode was produced by Darah Ghanem and Alex Atack, with editorial support from Dana Ballout and Hebah Fisher. Fact-checking by Zeina Dowidar, sound design by Alex Atack and mixing by Mohamed Khreizat. Kerning Cultures is a Kerning Cultures Network production.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Alex here. Before we get started, there's something in this episode that I want to flag.
0:06.2	In the week since we've released part one of this two-part story, we've had a couple of people approach us with information about Steve Gooch, one of the main characters we interviewed.
0:15.5	Based on what we've been told and conversations we've had this week, we've decided to cut Steve's contributions from this episode.
0:21.6	So you heard him in part one, you won't hear him in part two. Okay, here's Hibba.
0:26.6	Hey everyone, I'm Hibba Fisher and this is Kearning Cultures, stories from the Middle East and North Africa and the spaces in between.
0:33.6	This episode you're listening to now is part two of a two-part series. If you haven't
0:39.4	heard part one, I encourage you to go back and listen to it first, because otherwise this
0:44.3	episode won't make a whole lot of sense. Here's where we left off last week.
0:49.5	When Bishop Gwynne left the school, he left the management of it in the hands of a group of
0:53.5	trustees. And the people that he chose the management of it in the hands of a group of trustees.
1:01.0	And the people that he chose, they would be trustees until either they left Sudan or they gave up their positions or they died.
1:05.4	And the only way for new trustees to be appointed was for the current trustees to appoint them.
1:08.9	And that was the way it was supposed to carry on through future generations.
1:11.8	But what Steve said he was looking at in that school director's office in 2011 was this handwritten piece of paper that he said looked forged
1:17.2	and that he said listed the appointment of five new trustees. Today, what happens next?
1:32.0	The more than is predictable they've seen it happen. And one story that always kind of captures my experience.
1:33.7	The street's lost culture.
1:37.6	And you're listening to Kearning cultures.
1:44.1	Here's producer, Alex A-Tac.
1:46.0	The case Marina was trying to make was this, that these five men, the school's board of trustees, had been abusing their positions to steal money from the school for over 15 years, and they wanted to set out to prove it.
1:58.0	With Steve, she ran a blog, nothing officially sanctioned by the school, just a side project,
2:02.8	that shared historic photos of unity. So they already had an outlet. They made a new section of the
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