And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation Their mission is peace and their method is reconciliation through understanding and communication. It seemed like the end of the world.After years of exile, with the fighting seemingly over, Agnes returned to Liberia--a country now devastated by years of civil war. An army of children was approachi

Title	:	And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation
Author	:	Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna
Rating	:	4.74 (820 Votes)
Asin	:	140132357X
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	320 Pages
Publish Date	:	2011-03-22
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When bullets hit Agnes Kamara-Umunna's home in Monrovia, Liberia, she and her father hastily piled whatever they could carry into their car and drove toward the border, along with thousands of others. An army of children was approaching, under the leadership of Charles Taylor. It seemed like the end of the world. Slowly, they made their way to the safety of Sierra Leone. They were the lucky ones.After years of exile, with the fighting seemingly over, Agnes returned to Liberia--a country now devastated by years of civil war. Families have been torn apart, villages destroyed, and it seems as though no one has been spared. Reeling, and unsure of what to do in this place so different from the home of her memories, Agnes accepted a job at the local UN-run radio station. Their mission is peace and their method is reconciliation through understanding and communication. Soon, she came up with a daring plan: Find the former child soldiers, and record their stories. And so Agnes, then a 43-year-

Editorial : About the AuthorAgnes Kamara-Umunna was born in Liberia where she hosted the radio program Straight From the Heart and is a statement taker for the Liberia Truth & Reconciliation Commission. She lives in New York with her three children.

Emily Holland is an in-house producer and reporter for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), has contributed to JANE Magazine, The Princeton Alumni Weekly, and writes a "Dispatches from a Humanitarian Journalist" column for Dave Eggers's online publication McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

But she broadens the circle further to include the warlords, the intelligence gatherers and the girls who were forced to be soldiers and concubines.

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