An Odyssey Honor audiobook and National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel—adapted for audio—is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl....
Kenya
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Auteur:Jamieson, VictoriaSommaire: - Auteur:Yurk, JonSommaire:
A provocative look at the vital connection between human beings, the natural world and meaningful knowledge. While tracking a lion with a Samburu headman and then, later, eluding human assailants who may be tracking him, Jon Turk...
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Auteur:Mwangi, MejaSommaire:Winner, Children's Africana Book Award - Best Book for Older Readers. For young Kariuki, life in a small village in central Kenya is one great adventure. And when he meets Nigel life becomes even more interesting. Nigel is from England...
- Auteur:Butler-Witter, Elizabeth, Leng'ete, NiceSommaire:
When her parents died, and Nice and her sister Soila were taken in by their uncle, who had little interest in the girls. Fearing "the cut" (female genital mutilation), which was the fate of all Maasai women, Nice and Soila...
- Auteur:Krotz, LarrySommaire:
In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful...
- Auteur:Rawlence, BenSommaire:
To charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it's a "nursery for terrorists"; to the western media, it's a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it...
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Auteur:Griffin, ScottSommaire:In 1996, successful businessman and certified pilot, Scott Griffin, decided to break from the comfortable routine of his life to go work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that flies doctors to remote areas to...
