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HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE - IMBOLO MBUE KARTONIERT ...

'Sweeping and quietly devastating' New York Times   'A David and Goliath story for our times' O
the Oprah Magazine    Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa  How Beautiful We Were
tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an
American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying
from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations are made - and
ignored. The country's government  led by a brazen dictator  exists to serve its own interest
only. Left with few choices  the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But their fight will
come at a steep price . . . one which generation after generation will have to pay.  Told
through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula  How
Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit
coupled with the ghost of colonialism  comes up against one community's determination to hold
onto its ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of
her people's freedom.

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