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Name: City of thorns
Author: Ben Rawlence

Ben Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya, and to sketch the wider political forces that keep half a million refugees trapped there. Lucid, vivid and illuminating, City of Thorns tells an urgent human story.

First publish date: 2016

Authors: Ben Rawlence

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