Maalika

Maalika

by John Little and Valerie Browning
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Publication Date: 01/07/2008

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In 1973, Valerie Browning, a young Sydney nurse, volunteered to go to Ethiopia to help the victims of a devastating famine. She had little conception of Africa or Africans, and yet the continent and its people would become the guiding force of her life.


Galvanised by the suffering she witnessed in Ethiopia, on her return to Australia she became a human rights and aid activist for the people of the Horn of Africa. Valerie's work led her back to Africa again and again, involving her - at considerable risk to herself - in the armed liberation conflicts of the region. Even as she discovered brutality and corruption at the heart of these political movements, she also found love, marrying Ismael Ali Gardo, whose people, the Afar, roamed Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Sudan as nomadic herdsmen. Ismael's life mission was to help the Afar - desperately poor, uneducated, landless, and the victims of oppression in every country they once roved freely. Soon it became Valerie's too, as she embraced their culture and threw herself into their cause.


In one of the most inhospitable landscapes on earth, Valerie and Ismael have waged an incredible struggle, bringing health and education to a people who would otherwise have nothing. Valerie's story is both an astonishing adventure and a testament to how determination and passion can achieve extraordinary things.

ISBN:
9781742624587
9781742624587
Category:
Biography: general
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-07-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
John Little

A former judge for the UFC and a practicing martial artist, John Little is the bestselling author of Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body, Who Killed Tom Thomson?, and the two-volume series The Donnellys. His work on Bruce Lee has been lauded internationally. He lives in Bracebridge, Ontario.

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