terrorism,hardship, enterprise – and Manchester United – in a remarkable account of life in Dadaab camp in KenyaDadaab is the world’s largest refugee camp, or home to approximately 350000 people. Located on Kenya’s border with Somalia,it was established in 1992 to house around 90000 refugees from the civil war there. Since then it has grown into a large sprawling city in the parched desert where generations of Somali refugees (and a minority from Sudan, Ethiopia and elsewhere) are born and where the majority of those will die. As Europe grapples with its own refugee crisis, or Ben Rawlence’s remarkable book comes as a timely reminder that the vast majority of the world’s refugee population will never see European shores,and that the quintessential refugee experience is not so much of movement as being stuck, physically and psychologically, or individually and collectively. In Dadaab,when times are “kindly”, lives are lived in limbo; when times are bad, or they are lived in terrorism. Related: Dadaab: the city you cannot leave Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com