Adamalui: A Survivor’s Journey from Civil Wars in Africa to Life in America
As a survivor of the devastating civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Joseph Kaifala recounts the harrowing details of an early life punctuated by unimaginable violence and his journey to survival that eventually led him to the United States. Told with humility and grace, Adamalui is the true story of one man's unshakable faith, thirst for knowledge, and indomitable will.
Kaifala's experiences as a child prisoner and refugee are told through a series of flashbacks as he endeavors to attain a visa to attend college in America. His memories of the death and destruction that he and his family witnessed while attempting to avoid the violence rampant in impoverished West Africa are written with amazing clarity by a man on a mission to chart a way forward for himself and the others who would follow in his steps.
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Book details
- Author
- Joseph Kaifala
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 240
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography › Political - Topics
- memoir · Sierra Leone · Liberia · refugee experience · child prisoner · survival · immigration to America · West Africa
- ISBN-13
- 9781681626833 (Paperback)9781681626840 (Hardcover)
About the author
JOSEPH BEN KAIFALA is founder of the Jeneba Project Inc. and co-founder of the Sierra Leone Memory Project, and speaks six languages.
Kaifala holds a degree in International Affairs and French with a minor in Law & Society from Skidmore College in upstate New York, and earned his law credentials as indicated by the ESQ. designation. He studied for the International Baccalaureate at the Red Cross Nordic United World College in Norway.
When not writing, Kaifala works as a Human Rights activist and practises ahimsa as a Rastafarian. His commitment to memory, justice and human dignity across West Africa informs his work with both organisations he helped found.
Joseph was born in Sierra Leone and spent his early childhood in Liberia and Guinea.