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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Slum City Africa: A Very Bad Place with Good Teachings

Slum City Africa: A Very Bad Place with Good Teachings

Elofson, Warren
Weyessa, Jonah

Paperback

African History

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1839985798
ISBN13: 9781839985799
Publisher: First Hill Books
Published: Sep 13 2022
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Warren Elofson's interest in the cattle business stems from years of first-hand experience ranching and farming in western Canada. His interest in Africa originated in the summer of 2018 when he hired a young man named Jonah Weyessa to help him shingle a roof on a cabin in Windermere, British Columbia, Canada. As they worked, Weyessa told him all about his life growing up in Kibera, Kenya, one of the world's dirtiest and most dangerous city slums. Elofson was most intrigued by the fact that his young workmate remembered his experiences in Kibera with considerable fondness. Yes, he said when asked, we were poor, but we lived in a community where people of different religions and cultures pulled together. I played in the streets with other kids and when one of our parents couldn't be around or didn't have food one day other parents stepped in and helped out. But weren't you scared, Elofson naively asked, you know, wasn't it dangerous there? No, it wasn't came the reply, not at all, because in our little part of the community there were always two or three adults watching out for us. I felt safer there than I did later on in the first North American city we stayed in.

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