Compiled by Yilma Tafere Tasew Contributors: Dr Ramon Das, Teresia Teaiwa, Wellington Community Law, Kathy Jackson, Valerie Morse, Marion Maddox, Fantaye A Kashebo, Francoise Ugochukwu, Andrea Useem, L. E Scott, Dr Christopher LaMonica. Once again Yilma Tafere Tasew brings together a group of refugees, scholars, activists, and professionals to discuss the very important matter of African refugees. This book also includes his own autobiographical contribution providing more details of his experience as a refugee at the Kakuma Camp, in northeast Kenya. Tasew's contribution is heartfelt, blunt and revealing. For those of use used to encountering refugees in our own comfortable developed countries his writings offer a window into a trauma the majority of us will be spared. This collection of diverse essays not only illuminates current refugee issues it also brings together various perspectives on how best to tackle some of them.

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