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Lisa Shannon had a good life — a successful business, a fiancé, a home, and security. Then one day in 2005, an episode of Oprah changed her life. The show focused on women in the Congo, a place known as the worst place on earth to be a woman. She was suddenly awakened to the atrocities there... read more
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First Sentence edit
At the end of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, more than two million Hutu refugees fled over the border into Zaire.
Table of Contents edit
Foreword
Author's note
Introduction: Congo in a nutshell
1. Congo rushes
2. The greenest grass
3. Sometimes death is more like a labor
4. Lone run
5. Ms. Congo
6. I'd like to buy the world a Coke
7. The real thing
8. Souvenir
9. When I cry
10. The peanut girl
11. Militias in the mist
12. Sugarcane
13. A friend from far away
14. My own private sister
15. Gift from God
16. Generose
17. The road to Baraka
18. A separate peace
19. An odd paradise
20. Water water
21. The long drive home
22. Orchid safari club
23. Mama Congo
24. El Presidente
25. Criteria
26. Parentheses
27. Goodbye party
28. The end of logic
29. These fragments
30. In-between
31. Missing
32. Salt
33. The hidden face
34. Furaha
epilogue
Memorial
Key terms
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the author
Index
Find your own Furaha: what you can do now
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lisa J. Shannon (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Seal Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9781580052962
Page Count: 335
Publisher: Seal Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9781580052962
Page Count: 335
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: HQ1805.5 S53 2010
- Dewey: 305.9
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