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Those we throw away are diamonds : a refugee's search for home  Cover Image Book Book

Those we throw away are diamonds : a refugee's search for home / Mondiant Dogon with Jenna Krajeski.

Dogon, Mondiant, (author.). Krajeski, Jenna, (author.).

Summary:

Rarely do refugees get to tell their own stories. We see them only for a moment, if at all, in flight: Syrians winding through the desert; children searching a Greek shore for their parents; families gathered at the southern border of the U.S. 'Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds' is a stunning and heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis, from a man who faced the very worst of humanity and survived to advocate for displaced people around the world.

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  • ISBN: 9781984881281 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
Subject: Dogon, Mondiant > Childhood and youth.
Refugees > Rwanda > Biography.
Refugees > Rwanda > Social conditions.
Tutsi (African people) > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.

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Mondiant Nshimiyimana Dogon is an author, human rights activist, and refugee ambassador. Born into a Congolese Tutsi family in Bagogwe tribe in North Kivu province, at age three he was forced to leave his home village, Bikenke, because of the Rwandan genocide against Tutsis that spilled over into the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since 1996 he has lived in refugee camps. Dogon holds a BA from the University of Rwanda and an MA in international education from New York University.
 
Jenna Krajeski is a reporter for The Fuller Project whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Nation, among other publications. She is the coauthor of Nobel laureate Nadia Murad’s memoir, The Last Girl, and was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.


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