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From the publisher: James Martin, S.J., combines elements of spiritual writing, journalism, travel narrative, humor, and history into his compelling spiritual journey across East Africa. For two years Martin worked with the Jesuit Refugee Service to help the refugees in Nairobi, Kenya begin small businesses. This Our Exile recounts incredible stories of refugees who migrated to Nairobi from Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan, Mozambique, and Ethiopia, blending their individual lives with reports on the political and social turmoil they fled. Martin takes us to remote and incredible places, from a teeming UN refugee camp in the dry lands of northern Uganda to a lonely chapel on the windswept coast of East Africa. In other, more lighthearted moments he recounts his own misadventures, and some of the more amusing aspects of adjusting to life in Nairobi. Though Martin came to East Africa in the role of teacher, the Kenyans and refugees with whom he worked taught him much more: about life, faith, and survival.
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