Stronger Than Death: How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa

by Rachel Pieh Jones

Book Overview

Think Mother Jones meets Mother Teresa, in Mogadishu.

Amid a volatile mix of disease, war, and religious fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa, what difference could one woman make? Annalena Tonelli left behind career, family, and homeland anyway, moving to a remote Muslim village in northern Kenya to live among its outcasts - desert nomads dying of tuberculosis, history's deadliest disease.

"I am nobody," she always insisted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874862515
• ISBN13: 9780874862515
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Plough Publishing House
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.7"