{"product_id":"mama-koko-and-the-hundred-gunmen-an-ordinary-familys-extraordinary-tale-of-love-loss-and-survival-in-congo-9781610394451","title":"Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen: An Ordinary Family's Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lisa J. Shannon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Africa - Central\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDriven by her family's devastating losses, Congolese expatriate Francisca Thelin embarks, with human rights activist Lisa J. Shannon, on a perilous journey back to her beloved homeland, now under the shadow of one of Africa's most feared militias -- Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. With gunmen camped at the edge of town, Francisca is forced to face a paralyzing clash between her life in America and her family's rapidly evaporating world -- and the reality that their rush to her family's aid may backfire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen\u003c\/i\u003e weaves Francisca's journey with stories of the family's harrowing encounters with gunmen and tales from their past to create a vivid, illuminating portrait of a place and its people. We hear of Mama Koko's early life as a gap-toothed beauty plotting to escape her inevitable fate of wife and motherhood; of Papa Alexander's empire of wives, each of whom he married because she cooked and cleaned and made good coffee; and of Francisca's idyllic childhood, when she ran barefoot through the family's coffee plantation gorging herself on mangoes and fish that \"were the size of small children.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Offering compelling testimony to the strength of the human spirit and the beauty of human connection in the darkest of times, \u003ci\u003eMama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen\u003c\/i\u003e also explores what it means and requires to truly make a difference in an unjust and often violent world.","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45356228051095,"sku":"9781610394451","price":2530.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781610394451.webp?v=1767149103","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mama-koko-and-the-hundred-gunmen-an-ordinary-familys-extraordinary-tale-of-love-loss-and-survival-in-congo-9781610394451","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}