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Resources
 Kakuma—Turkana:
Dueling Struggles: Africa’s Forgotten People is a
new book by Daniel Cheng Yang, an 18-year-old whose parents are
former refugees from Vietnam. When he was 15 Yang traveled to northwest
Kenya to document the life of the indigenous peoples of Turkana,
who live in northwest Kenya. The Kakuma refugee camp, which has
been the sanctuary of people fleeing violence in Sudan and East
Africa since 1992, is also in the region, and the camp’s 81,000
residents place an added strain on already sparse local resources.
Yang’s black-and-white photos complement the text in depicting
the harsh realities of life for both the Turkana and the Kakuma
refugees.
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Rev. Cherian Puthiyottil, a member of the LIRS
Ambassadors Circle, is the author of Our
Neighbors: An Introduction to Cultural Diversity and World Religions,
published last year by Augsburg-Fortress Press. The book profiles
60 new immigrant communities in the United States, highlighting
their languages, religion and cultural traditions. Five major world
religions are also profiled in the 144-page book. Congregations
may find this a useful resource as they express hospitality to newcomers.
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