Refugee : a memoir
(2021)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/MBOLELA,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021
©2021
©2021
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
xv, 236 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374240929, 0374240922 :, 0374240922, 9780374240929
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Originally published in German in 2014 by Mandelbaum Verlag, Germany, as Mein Weg vom Kongo nach Europa."
"Revised and updated with new chapters by the author" title page
Foreword / by Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein -- Preface to the English Edition -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo -- My life before exile -- Escape from the DRC -- Rabat -- Founding ARCOM -- Raising our voices, fighting for our rights -- Europe -- Epilogue: The baobab : a refuge for migrant women -- Afterword: The current situation in the DRC
"A memoir of a Congolese political refugee's harrowing six-year journey from the DRC to the Netherlands"--