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This co-written memoir describes the grit and determination it took for one woman to find a place called home. Gobey''s happy childhood in rural Makalaangow, Somalia, is interrupted by the violence of rival warlords jockeying for power. She flees, with her family, to neighboring villages, always on the move, until she finds sanctuary in the UNHCR-run refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. After the loss of several loved ones, she begins her education at a UNHCR-run primary school, inside the camp. Excelling at English, she goes on to become a teacher at that school. When she learns of an opportunity to emigrate to the US, she applies, and her interviews go well. During the approval waiting period, lasting several years, she starts her own small business selling produce to other refugees. Eventually, she arrives in the American Midwest, with her family. She overcomes the humiliation of being forced to work in low-wage, labor intensive jobs, successfully adjusts to American culture, and starts a

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This book is highly recommended for use by postgraduate-level students and researchers in the socioeconomic and socio-behavioral fields. The book introduces novice researchers to commonly used econometric and statistical methods of data analysis. The methods covered in the book are commonly used for performing quantitative and qualitative data analyses in socioeconomic, demographic, public-health and socio-behavioral studies. The book is especially helpful to learners who wish to acquire basic skills in quantitative and qualitative data analysis by using statistical packages such as SPSS and STATA. Theoretical principles are outlined, followed by easy numerical examples, along with steps that need to be followed for performing data analyses and interpreting results obtained from data analyses. The book has two aspects (quantitative and qualitative data analyses). As part of the quantitative aspect, the book stipulates theoretical principles, steps needed for data analysis, and the inte

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''In Okantah''s new book, A Black Voice in the Wilderness, he writes ''word sounds have power,'' which could be the four-word biography of his life. Everything about his poetry, blogs, performances, teaching, etc. centers around what happens when he uses his voice to document Black life and speak out against racial injustice through a cultural collective lens while coining new terms and phrases like: ''Truth is rinsed white,'' ''white privilege is Vanilla-ISIS,'' and ''Black people are still ''strange fruit.'' A must read.'' - Dr. Mary E. Weems, Poet, Playwright and social/cultural foundations Scholar. ''Mwatabu Okantah is a modern-day Griot giving voice to the inconvenient truths and spiritual sickness of our American story. He is one of the ''good people'' standing up to say, ''enough is enough.'' We need Okantah''s open and honest voice, these powerful poems and piercing commentary, now more than ever to wake us up to the modern plague of race hatred in this country.'' - David Hassl

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