
Displaced in Denan
Publisher's Description
In the Ogaden region of southeastern Ethiopia there
is a camp of approximately 10,000 souls. Officially
Ethiopian but ethnically Somali, they are not classified
as refugees but as Internally Displaced Peoples,
or IDPs, and thus live without even the marginal assistance
that the UN can offer. The number of IDPs
worldwide is far greater than is widely known, and far
greater than that of officially recognized refugees—
IDPs number near the population of Canada. Africa’s
tragedy lies not just in corruption, poverty, wars,
droughts and famine, as if they were not enough. It
lies also in the profound inability of Western societies,
desperate to help with or without their politicians,
to understand tribal and nomadic claims to the land.
Jarret Schecter’s Displaced in Denan is a record of the
camp in Ogaden and the efforts of a small town in
Connecticut to help the people there: it ends in
hope that individuals can overcome bureaucracy.
ISBN: 1904563473
Publisher: Trolley Books
Hardcover : 80 pages
Language: English
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Publisher: Trolley Books
Hardcover : 80 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 0 x 0 x 0 inches