ELT World » somalia Your local friendly TEFL blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Somali students share memoirs from Kenya to Lewiston /2009/04/somali-students-share-memoirs-from-kenya-to-lewiston/ /2009/04/somali-students-share-memoirs-from-kenya-to-lewiston/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:31:34 +0000 david /news/?p=374 Somalia and the United States: The crowd listened intently as the soft-spoken, sometimes shy writers took the stage to read excerpts from their new book, notes the Sun journal. They read poems praying for a better life, autobiographical accounts of the harsh reality of life in a refugee camp and stories about the hope and inspiration they discovered in a central Maine community thousands of miles away from the African desert.

The anthology is “meant to both reflect the refugee journey from Somali to Dadaab to the United States to Lewiston, and reflect the diversity in Lewiston,” declared Patricia Buck, a professor of educational anthropology at Bates College and another co-editor of the collection. “They are looking for ways to be included in their new community without losing their identity.”

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