East Africa

Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally. Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Ar...

A Researcher For Human Rights Watch Describes The Refugee Camp In Dadaab, Home To Those Fleeing Civil War In Somalia, And Highlights The Life Of Various Res...

In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing ...

A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us.Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father be...

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Ab...

in This Original And Meticulous Work Of Historical Ethnography, Janice Boddy Deftly Offers An Acute Analysis Of Imperial Ambition And The Gendering Of Pol...