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Adamalui [electronic resource] : A Survivor’s Journey From Civil Wars in Africa to Life in America

Kaifala, Joseph2018
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As a survivor of the devastating civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Joseph Kaifala recounts the harrowing details of an early life punctuated by unimaginable violence and his journey to survival that eventually led him to the United States. Told with humility and grace, Adamalui is the true story of one man's unshakable faith, thirst for knowledge, and indomitable will.Kaifala's experiences as a child prisoner and refugee are told through a series of flashbacks as he endeavors to attain a visa to attend college in America. His memories of the death and destruction that he and his family witnessed while attempting to avoid the violence rampant in impoverished West Africa are written with amazing clarity by a man on a mission to chart a way forward for himself and the others who would follow in his steps.
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Turner, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9781681626857
Language:
English
BRN:
2670772
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