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Refugee family inside their tent in Kibabi Camp in North Kivu Province, Eastern DRC

A moment on ‘Oprah’ made her a human rights symbol. She wants to be more than that.

Source: The Washington Post

Clemantine Wamariya talks about her memoir, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, in which she writes about her experiences as a refugee fleeing genocide in Rwanda and rebuilding a life in the United States.

This entry was posted in A Matter of Life or Death and tagged Culture & Society, History, People on November 1, 2018 by Anita Hacker.

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