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Author Mbolela, Emmanuel, 1973- author.

Title Refugee / a memoir, Emmanuel Mbolela ; translated by Charlotte Collins from the German translation by Alexander Behr.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  967.51 MBOLELA    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY MBOLELA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  967.51 MBO    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description xv, 236 pages ; 22 cm
Note "Revised and updated with new chapters by the author" title page.
"Originally published in German in 2014 by Mandelbaum Verlag, Germany, as Mein Weg vom Kongo nach Europa."
Contents Foreword / by Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein -- Preface to the English Edition -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo -- My life before exile -- Escape from the DRC -- Rabat -- Founding ARCOM -- Raising our voices, fighting for our rights -- Europe -- Epilogue: The baobab : a refuge for migrant women -- Afterword: The current situation in the DRC.
Summary "A memoir of a Congolese political refugee's harrowing six-year journey from the DRC to the Netherlands"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Mbolela, Emmanuel, 1973-
Political refugees -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1997-
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists.
HISTORY / Africa / General.
Political refugees. (OCoLC)fst01069678
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Congo (Democratic Republic) (OCoLC)fst01208723
Chronological Term Since 1997
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Added Author Collins, Charlotte, 1967- translator.
Behr, Alexander, translator.
Added Title Mein Weg vom Kongo nach Europa. English.
ISBN 9780374240929 (hardcover)
0374240922 (hardcover)
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