Think Mother Jones meets Mother Teresa, in Mogadishu. Amid a
volatile mix of disease, war, and religious fundamentalism in the
Horn of Africa, what difference could one woman make? Annalena
Tonelli left behind career, family, and homeland anyway, moving to
a remote Muslim village in northern Kenya to live among its
outcasts - desert nomads dying of tuberculosis, history's deadliest
disease. "I am nobody," she always insisted. Yet by the time she
was killed for her work three decades later she had not only
developed an effective cure for tuberculosis among nomadic peoples
but also exposed a massacre, established homes and schools for the
deaf, advocated against female genital mutilation, and secured
treatment for ostracized AIDS patients. Months after winning the
Nansen Refugee Award from the UN in 2003, Annalena Tonelli was
assassinated at one of the tuberculosis hospitals she founded.
Rachel Pieh Jones, an American writer, was living a few doors down,
having moved to Somaliland with her husband and two children just
months before. Annalena's death would alter the course of her life.
No one who encounters Annalena in these pages will leave unchanged.
Her confounding, larger-than-life example challenges our
assumptions about aid and development, Christian-Muslim relations,
and what it means to put one's faith into practice. Brought vividly
back to life through Jones's meticulous reporting and her own
letters, Annalena presents us with a new measure of success and
commitment. But she also leaves us a gift: the secret to overcoming
the fear that pervades our society and our hearts - fear of disease
and death, fear of terrorism and war, fear of others, and fear of
failure.
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