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I Will Not Grow Downward
Location(s): Eritrea
Genre(s): Nonfiction
Era(s): 1990s
ONE MAN’S LONG AND PERILOUS FLIGHT FROM AFRICA’S HERMIT KINGDOMTHIRTY YEARS OF BLOODY CONFLICT with a powerful enemy never broke the spirit of the Eritrean people. After winning their freedom from Ethiopia, a young man dreams of starting a new life, building a home, and teaching his children what it means to be the masters of their own fate. But all-too soon, the fighting resumes. Rounded up and forced into conscription, subjected to inhumane treatment, made to serve a despotic leader in an army fighting a war nobody wants, he will have to sacrifice much just for a chance to get back what he lost – his family, his freedom, his birthright. But will it be worth it? Or will he simply lose everything in the end?I Will Not Grow Downward offers an exceedingly rare glimpse inside the highly secretive and brutally repressive regime known as Africa’s North Korea.
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