Stronger Than Death: How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa
Somalia's Mother Teresa chose love over fear. Amid a volatile mix of disease, war, and religious fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa, what difference could one woman make? Annalena Tonelli left behind career, family, and homeland anyway, moving to a remote Muslim village in northern Kenya to live among its outcasts - desert nomads dying of tuberculosis, history's deadliest disease."I am nobody," she always insisted. Yet by the time she was killed for her work three decades later she had not only developed an effective cure for tuberculosis among nomadic peoples but also exposed a massacre, established homes and schools for the deaf, advocated against female genital mutilation, and secured treatment for ostracized AIDS patients.Months after winning the Nansen Refugee Award from the UN in 2003, Annalena Tonelli was assassinated at one of the tuberculosis hospitals she founded. Rachel Pieh Jones, an American writer, was living a few doors down, having moved to Somaliland with her
Product details: Stronger Than Death: How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa
Author : Rachel Pieh Jones
Pages : 280 pages
Publisher : Plough Publishing House
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ISBN-10 : 0874862515
ISBN-13 : 9780874862515
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