City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (Hardcover) by Ben Rawlence

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More proof that the people who control your food supply ultimately control you.

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Ben Rawlence's scrupulous (and sometimes dangerous) research informs his “City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp.” In 1992, Dadaab camp was built in Kenya at the southern border with Somalia. At its height, it contained over half a million souls. We experience daily life a...

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Powerful book on the Dadaab refugee camp for Somalis driven out of their country into Kenya because of drought and war. Yet this huge refugee camp in the desert is inhospitable in so many ways--corruption, lack of jobs, brutality and yet refugees come and come and come. Rawlence tells the stories...

from BrittanyLyn

The stories of the inhabitants of the largest refugee camp in the world was heartbreaking. Whole generations that have been born in the camps and know no other way of life, with no "home" to go back to, either ravished by war or famine. This was a harrowing look at the limited opportunities avail...

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About a dozen refugees are interviewed about their lives before and after they enter the Dadaab refugee camp on the Somalia-Kenya border.