‘City Of Thorns’ Charts Life In World’s Largest Refugee Camp
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with author Ben Rawlence, whose new book, City of Thorns, charts nine lives in the world’s largest refugee camp.
City of Thorns
Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence
To the charity workers, Dadaab 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. (http://us.macmillan.com/cityofthorns/benrawlence)