Reconstruction and Reconciliation: Adolescents in Sierra Leone
Thursday, November 14, 2002
Teenage Sierra Leone War survivors Fatmata Binta Barrie and Mohamed Alie Kanu join Jane Lowicki, coordinator at the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children to discuss the role of adolescents in the post war reconstruction process. Comedian Tom Arnold shares his autobiography, How I Lost 5 Pounds in Six Years. Uki Goni reveals the escape network set up by World War II criminals to smuggle Nazis into Argentina. And Gretchen Worden explores physical oddities and takes us into the strange world of the Mutter Museum.
Fatmata Binta Barrie and Mohamed Alie Kanu
Teenage Sierra Leone War survivors Fatmata Binta Barrie and Mohamed Alie Kanu join Jane Lowicki, coordinator at the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, discuss the role of adolescents in the post war reconstruction process.
Fatmata and Mohamed write about what they consider to be the most pressing issues ...
Fatmata and Mohamed write about what they consider to be the most pressing issues ...
Tom Arnold
Comedian Tom Arnold shares his autobiography, How I Lost 5 Pounds in Six Years.
Uki Goni
Uki Goni reveals the escape network set up by World War II criminals to smuggle Nazis into Argentina, The Real Odessa.
Gretchen Worden
Museum Director, Gretchen Worden, explores physical oddities and takes us into the strange world of the Mutter Museum, The Mutter Museum: of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
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