Research Catalog

Title

Mama Koko and the hundred gunmen : an ordinary family's extraordinary tale of love, loss, and survival in Congo / Lisa J. Shannon.

Author

Shannon, Lisa, 1975-

Publication

• New York : PublicAffairs, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Description

vii, 213 pages : maps; 22 cm

Summary

"Driven by her family's devastating losses, Congolese expatriate Francisca Thelin embarks, with human rights activist Lisa J. Shannon, on a perilous journey back to her beloved homeland, now under the shadow ofone of Africa's most feared militias--Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. With gunmen camped at the edge of town, Francisca is forced to face a paralyzing clash between her life in America and her family's rapidly evaporating world--and the reality that their rush to her family's aid may backfire"--Dust jacket flap.

Subject

• Thelin, Francisca
• Thelin, Francisca > Family
• Shannon, Lisa, 1975- > Travel > Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Kony, Joseph
• Lord's Resistance Army
• 2000-2099
• Women and war > Congo (Democratic Republic)
• War victims > Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Atrocities > Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Congolese (Democratic Republic) > United States > Biography
• Congo (Democratic Republic) > Social conditions > 21st century

Genre/Form

• Local author.
• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781610394451 (hardcover)
• 1610394453 (hardcover)
• 9781610394468 (e-book)
• 1610394461 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2014035568

OCLC

• 890814572
• SCSB-11110630

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library