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A Continent's Challenge, A Country's Hope
Harper
July 2012
On Sale: July 10, 2012
240 pages
ISBN: 0061284904
EAN: 9780061284908
Kindle: B0070XF3CU
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Non-Fiction
In 2005 Uzodinma Iweala stunned readers and critics alike
with Beasts of No Nation, his debut novel about child
soldiers in West Africa. Now his return to Africa has
produced Our Kind of People, a non-fiction account of the
AIDS crisis every bit as startling and original. HIV/AIDS
has been reported as one of the most destructive diseases in
recent memory—tearing apart communities and ostracizing the
afflicted. But the emphasis placed on death, destruction,
and despair hardly captures the many and varied effects of
the epidemic, or the stories of the extraordinary people who
live and die under its watch. Our Kind of People opens our minds to these stories,
introducing a new set of voices and altering the way we
speak and think about disease. Iweala embarks on a
remarkable journey through his native Nigeria, meeting
individuals and communities that are struggling daily to
understand both the impact and meaning of HIV/AIDS. He
speaks with people from all walks of life—the ill and the
healthy, doctors, nurses, truck drivers, sex workers,
shopkeepers, students, parents, and children. Their
testimonies are by turns uplifting, alarming, humorous, and
surprising, and always unflinchingly candid. Integrating his
own experiences with these voices, Iweala creates at once a
deeply personal exploration of life, love, and connection in
the face of disease, and an incisive critique of our
existing ideas of health and happiness. Beautifully written and heartbreakingly honest, Our Kind of
People goes behind the headlines of an unprecedented
epidemic to show the real lives it affects, illuminating the
scope of the crisis and a continent's valiant struggle.
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