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City of Thorns - Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (Paperback)
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City of Thorns - Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (Paperback)
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To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian
crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists';
to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half
a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of
miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable
desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a
city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks or
plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on
rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence
became a first-hand witness to a strange and desperate limbo-land,
getting to know many of those who have come there seeking
sanctuary. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives
for football; Nisho, who scrapes an existence by pushing a
wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth
leader; and schoolgirl Kheyro, whose future hangs upon her
education. In City of Thorns, Rawlence interweaves the stories of
nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp and to
sketch the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped
there. Lucid, vivid and illuminating, here is an urgent human story
with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the
people who call Dadaab home.
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