Ben Rawlence: 2 books
City of Thorns
Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
To the charity workers, Dabaab 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,...
Radio Congo
Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
While poring over dust-caked pamphlets in the library, Ben Rawlence stumbles upon the photo of a lost city of colonial Congo--a glistening, modern metropolis built by huge tin mines and European capitalists. Today, that city, Manono, sits beyond the infamous Triangle of Death,” in an area rarely...