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Review:
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Unknown: A Refugee’s Story – Akuch Kuol Anyieth (Text Publishing)
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Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance – Eda Gunyadin (NewSouth)
Akuch Kuol Anyieth was born into a world of violence. Her memoir begins at the
age of five, when she fled with her mother and her three siblings from civil
war in South Sudan to a refugee camp in north-west Kenya.
The Kakuma refugee camp became her home for the next nine years. It was a place
where everything necessary for physical and mental survival was in short
supply: food, water, shelter, law and order, safety, security and hope.
Unknown is a powerful book about growing up South Sudanese in the late 20th
century. It is also a book of advocacy, written with the insights and
understanding gathered from Anyieth’s scholarship and activism in family and
domestic violence in the Black refugee community.
It breaks the silence around the African-Australian experience, which has long
enabled systemic discrimination and racism towards South Sudanese refugees in
Australia."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
