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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Shannon, Lisa, 1975- author.     Subjects     Thelin, Francisca.     Thelin, Francisca -- Family.     Shannon, Lisa, 1975- -- Travel -- Congo (Democratic Republic)     Kony, Joseph.     Lord's Resistance Army.     Women and war -- Congo (Democratic Republic)     War victims -- Congo (Democratic Republic)     Atrocities -- Congo (Democratic Republic)     Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.     Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- United States -- Biography.     Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shannon, Lisa, 1975- author.       by title:      Mama Koko and the hu...         MARC Display

Mama Koko and the hundred gunmen [electronic resource] : one ordinary family's extraordinary tale of love, loss, and survival in Congo / Lisa J. Shannon. by Shannon, Lisa, 1975- author. New York : PublicAffairs, 2014. Subjects Thelin, Francisca.   Thelin, Francisca -- Family.   Shannon, Lisa, 1975- -- Travel -- Congo (Democratic Republic)   Kony, Joseph.   Lord's Resistance Army.   Women and war -- Congo (Democratic Republic)   War victims -- Congo (Democratic Republic)   Atrocities -- Congo (Democratic Republic)   Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.   Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- United States -- Biography.   Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=81250DEA-BBF1-43B8-BDE3-C4A14C3A109D This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1486-1/{81250DEA-BBF1-43B8-BDE3-C4A14C3A109D}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781610394468 (electronic bk.) 1610394461 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Contents:  Mama Koko and the hundred gunmen -- Epilogue, or a tale of many termites -- What you can do before setting this book down -- Appendix: Congo and Joseph Kony. Requests:  0 Summary:  International human rights activist Lisa Shannon spent many afternoons at the kitchen table having tea with her friend Francisca Thelin, who often spoke of her childhood in Congo. Thelin would conjure vivid images of lush flower gardens, fish the size of small children, and of children running barefoot through her family's coffee plantation, gorging on fruit from the robust and plentiful mango trees. She urged Shannon to visit her family in Dungu, to get a taste of -- Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen Yet, as the LRA camp out on the edge of town grew, tensions inside the house reach a fever pitch and Shannon and Thelin's friendship was fiercely tested. Shannon was forced to confront her limitations as an activist and reconcile her vision of what it means to affect meaningful change in the lives of others. Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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