Darfur Genocide Books | Summaries & Audio

Tears of the Desert

by Halima Bashir • 2008

A Darfuri doctor escapes genocide and rape, only to land inside the UK's asylum machine.

4.24

4k+

🌍 African Memoir 🧳 Refugee Stories 🚫 Sexual Violence In War

Tears of the Desert 92%

A Darfuri doctor escapes genocide and rape, only to land inside the UK's asylum machine.

by Halima Bashir 2008

4.24

4k+ ratings

🌍 African Memoir 🧳 Refugee Stories 🚫 Sexual Violence In War

An Ordinary Man

by Paul Rusesabagina • 2006

Rwanda, 1994: a hotel manager faced militias with nothing but a telephone and saved 1,200.

4.19

7k+

🇷🇼 Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Memoir 🕊️ Genocide Survival

An Ordinary Man 88%

Rwanda, 1994: a hotel manager faced militias with nothing but a telephone and saved 1,200.

by Paul Rusesabagina 2006

4.19

7k+ ratings

🇷🇼 Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Memoir 🕊️ Genocide Survival

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

by Philip Gourevitch • 1998

Seven pastors warned they would die tomorrow. The world read their letter and did nothing.

4.22

37k+

🖋️ Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Politics 📜 Colonial Legacy

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Summary

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 88%

Seven pastors warned they would die tomorrow. The world read their letter and did nothing.

by Philip Gourevitch 1998

4.22

37k+ ratings

🖋️ Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Politics 📜 Colonial Legacy

Surrender or Starve

by Robert D. Kaplan • 1988

A Marxist regime weaponized famine in Ethiopia. The West's life-saving aid also financed the war.

3.67

474

🌍 Horn Of Africa 🏛️ African Politics 🍂 Political Famine

Surrender or Starve 88%

A Marxist regime weaponized famine in Ethiopia. The West's life-saving aid also financed the war.

by Robert D. Kaplan 1988

3.67

474 ratings

🌍 Horn Of Africa 🏛️ African Politics 🍂 Political Famine

The Red Pencil

by Andrea Davis Pinkney • 2014

When war steals her home and voice, a Darfur girl draws her way back to hope.

3.9

7k+

📖 Novel In Verse 🧳 Child Refugee 🎨 Art As Healing

The Red Pencil 88%

When war steals her home and voice, a Darfur girl draws her way back to hope.

by Andrea Davis Pinkney 2014

3.9

7k+ ratings

📖 Novel In Verse 🧳 Child Refugee 🎨 Art As Healing

The Power of Women

by Denis Mukwege • 2021

A Nobel surgeon proves wartime rape is military strategy. The survivors showed him the remedy.

4.71

2k+

🩺 Conflict Zone Medicine ⚔️ Rape In War 💪 Survivor Narratives

The Power of Women 88%

A Nobel surgeon proves wartime rape is military strategy. The survivors showed him the remedy.

by Denis Mukwege 2021

4.71

2k+ ratings

🩺 Conflict Zone Medicine ⚔️ Rape In War 💪 Survivor Narratives

A Long Way Gone

by Ishmael Beah • 2007

The army gave him cocaine and an AK-47 at 13. UNICEF pulled him out at 16.

4.16

195k+

🪖 Child Soldiers 🌍 African Conflict 💔 War Trauma

A Long Way Gone 87%

The army gave him cocaine and an AK-47 at 13. UNICEF pulled him out at 16.

by Ishmael Beah 2007

4.16

195k+ ratings

🪖 Child Soldiers 🌍 African Conflict 💔 War Trauma

The Miracle of the Kurds

by Stephen Mansfield • 2014

After surviving genocide, a forgotten people built the freest, most hopeful society in Iraq.

4.09

335

🏔️ Kurdish History 🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🕊️ Genocide And Recovery

The Miracle of the Kurds 87%

After surviving genocide, a forgotten people built the freest, most hopeful society in Iraq.

by Stephen Mansfield 2014

4.09

335 ratings

🏔️ Kurdish History 🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🕊️ Genocide And Recovery

The Drone Eats with Me

by Atef Abu Saif • 2015

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

4.40

452

🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature

The Drone Eats with Me 87%

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

by Atef Abu Saif 2015

4.40

452 ratings

🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature

The Dark Side of Democracy

by Michael Mann • 2004

Modernity's worst mass killings were not by tyrants alone, but by democracies that turned ethnic.

4.06

159

💀 Genocide Studies 🌍 Ethnic Conflict 🏳️ Nationalism

The Dark Side of Democracy 87%

Modernity's worst mass killings were not by tyrants alone, but by democracies that turned ethnic.

by Michael Mann 2004

4.06

159 ratings

💀 Genocide Studies 🌍 Ethnic Conflict 🏳️ Nationalism

The Least of All Possible Evils

by Eyal Weizman • 2012

When humanitarian law calculates acceptable civilian deaths, it also makes them thinkable.

4.19

224

🩸 Aid And Complicity 🤷 Lesser Evil Logic 📊 Proportionality In War

The Least of All Possible Evils 87%

When humanitarian law calculates acceptable civilian deaths, it also makes them thinkable.

by Eyal Weizman 2012

4.19

224 ratings

🩸 Aid And Complicity 🤷 Lesser Evil Logic 📊 Proportionality In War

King Leopold's Ghost

by Adam Hochschild • 1998

Private kingdom, fake charity, ten million dead: the Congo holocaust that Europe chose to forget.

4.19

70k+

🪓 Colonial Violence 🇨🇩 Congo History 🕵️ Investigative Journalism

King Leopold's Ghost 87%

Private kingdom, fake charity, ten million dead: the Congo holocaust that Europe chose to forget.

by Adam Hochschild 1998

4.19

70k+ ratings

🪓 Colonial Violence 🇨🇩 Congo History 🕵️ Investigative Journalism

The Pianist from Syria

by Aeham Ahmad • 2017

After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.

4.27

2k+

🏚️ Syrian Civil War 🫒 Palestinian Diaspora 🎹 Art As Resistance

The Pianist from Syria 87%

After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.

by Aeham Ahmad 2017

4.27

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Syrian Civil War 🫒 Palestinian Diaspora 🎹 Art As Resistance

The Great War for Civilisation

by Robert Fisk • 2005

One reporter's fifty-year witness to the West's century-long war on the Middle East.

4.41

6k+

🌍 Modern Middle East 🎤 Conflict Reporting 🎯 Western Intervention

The Great War for Civilisation 87%

One reporter's fifty-year witness to the West's century-long war on the Middle East.

by Robert Fisk 2005

4.41

6k+ ratings

🌍 Modern Middle East 🎤 Conflict Reporting 🎯 Western Intervention

A Genocide Foretold

by Chris Hedges • 2025

Gaza: not a war but the predictable endpoint of settler colonialism, backed by American billions.

4.57

542

🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Palestinian Resistance 🇺🇸 US Foreign Policy

A Genocide Foretold 87%

Gaza: not a war but the predictable endpoint of settler colonialism, backed by American billions.

by Chris Hedges 2025

4.57

542 ratings

🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Palestinian Resistance 🇺🇸 US Foreign Policy

The Bone Woman

by Clea Koff • 2001

At 23, she exhumed mass graves in Rwanda. The bones held evidence no killer could silence.

4.02

3k+

🦴 Forensic Anthropology 🔍 Genocide Investigation ⛏️ Mass Grave Exhumation

The Bone Woman 87%

At 23, she exhumed mass graves in Rwanda. The bones held evidence no killer could silence.

by Clea Koff 2001

4.02

3k+ ratings

🦴 Forensic Anthropology 🔍 Genocide Investigation ⛏️ Mass Grave Exhumation

The Art of Political Murder

by Francisco Goldman • 2007

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

4.15

1k+

🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions

The Art of Political Murder 87%

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

by Francisco Goldman 2007

4.15

1k+ ratings

🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions

Chasing Chaos

by Jessica Alexander • 2013

Humanitarian aid isn't what the brochures promise. A decade inside the machine shows why.

4.09

3k+

🌍 Humanitarian Aid 📋 Aid Industry Critique 🚨 Disaster Response

Chasing Chaos 87%

Humanitarian aid isn't what the brochures promise. A decade inside the machine shows why.

by Jessica Alexander 2013

4.09

3k+ ratings

🌍 Humanitarian Aid 📋 Aid Industry Critique 🚨 Disaster Response

I Shall Not Hate

by Izzeldin Abuelaish • 2010

A tank shell kills his daughters. Live on Israeli TV, a Palestinian doctor refuses to hate.

4.32

8k+

🇵🇸 Palestinian Voices 🏕️ Refugee Memoirs 🕊️ Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

I Shall Not Hate 87%

A tank shell kills his daughters. Live on Israeli TV, a Palestinian doctor refuses to hate.

by Izzeldin Abuelaish 2010

4.32

8k+ ratings

🇵🇸 Palestinian Voices 🏕️ Refugee Memoirs 🕊️ Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Wine to Water

by Doc Hendley • 2012

From pouring drinks to drilling wells in Darfur: a bartender's unlikely path into humanitarian work.

3.96

799

🎗️ Humanitarian Memoir 💧 Global Water Crisis ⚠️ Conflict Zone Aid

Wine to Water 87%

From pouring drinks to drilling wells in Darfur: a bartender's unlikely path into humanitarian work.

by Doc Hendley 2012

3.96

799 ratings

🎗️ Humanitarian Memoir 💧 Global Water Crisis ⚠️ Conflict Zone Aid

What Is the What

by Dave Eggers • 2006

Robbed in Atlanta, a Sudanese refugee escapes into the war-torn villages and camps of his past.

4.15

88k+

🎤 Fictionalized Memoir 🏃 Refugee Survival Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

What Is the What 86%

Robbed in Atlanta, a Sudanese refugee escapes into the war-torn villages and camps of his past.

by Dave Eggers 2006

4.15

88k+ ratings

🎤 Fictionalized Memoir 🏃 Refugee Survival Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

The Killing of Gaza

by Gideon Levy • 2024

October 7th was the price of a 75-year siege. The response: a nation's moral collapse.

4.21

178

🔥 Israeli Occupation 📰 War Journalism 🧱 Apartheid Critique

The Killing of Gaza 86%

October 7th was the price of a 75-year siege. The response: a nation's moral collapse.

by Gideon Levy 2024

4.21

178 ratings

🔥 Israeli Occupation 📰 War Journalism 🧱 Apartheid Critique

American Holocaust

by David E. Stannard • 1992

Before 1492, the Americas held more people than Europe. What followed erased 90 percent of them.

4.34

1k+

💀 Colonial Genocide 📖 Genocide Studies ✝️ Religious Violence

American Holocaust 86%

Before 1492, the Americas held more people than Europe. What followed erased 90 percent of them.

by David E. Stannard 1992

4.34

1k+ ratings

💀 Colonial Genocide 📖 Genocide Studies ✝️ Religious Violence

When Broken Glass Floats

by Chanrithy Him • 2000

Nine when Phnom Penh emptied overnight. Fourteen when she buried her parents and three siblings.

4.18

5k+

🏴 Khmer Rouge 👧 Child Survivor 🗣️ Survivor Testimony

When Broken Glass Floats 86%

Nine when Phnom Penh emptied overnight. Fourteen when she buried her parents and three siblings.

by Chanrithy Him 2000

4.18

5k+ ratings

🏴 Khmer Rouge 👧 Child Survivor 🗣️ Survivor Testimony

Gaza in Crisis

by Ilan Pappé • 2010

Five hundred villages erased, seventy years before October 7: the history the peace process buries.

4.15

2k+

📍 Israel-Palestine 💔 Nakba 🏚️ Settler Colonialism

Gaza in Crisis 86%

Five hundred villages erased, seventy years before October 7: the history the peace process buries.

by Ilan Pappé 2010

4.15

2k+ ratings

📍 Israel-Palestine 💔 Nakba 🏚️ Settler Colonialism

The Horn of Africa

by Christopher Clapham • 2017

Africa's only region never fully colonized produced border wars bloodier than any colonial map did.

3.89

🏛️ State Formation 🗺️ Horn Of Africa 🏚️ Failed States

The Horn of Africa 86%

Africa's only region never fully colonized produced border wars bloodier than any colonial map did.

by Christopher Clapham 2017

3.89

54 ratings

🏛️ State Formation 🗺️ Horn Of Africa 🏚️ Failed States

The Ends of the Earth

by Robert D. Kaplan • 1996

Rivers and soil shape nations more than constitutions. A journey to the frontiers where states fail.

4.11

2k+

🗺️ Political Travelogue 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🌱 Environmental Determinism

The Ends of the Earth 86%

Rivers and soil shape nations more than constitutions. A journey to the frontiers where states fail.

by Robert D. Kaplan 1996

4.11

2k+ ratings

🗺️ Political Travelogue 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🌱 Environmental Determinism

Ten Myths About Israel

by Ilan Pappé • 2017

Ten founding myths of Israel, debunked: the land wasn't empty and the flight wasn't voluntary.

4.40

6k+

🇵🇸 Israel-Palestine 🏴 Settler Colonialism 📜 Historical Revisionism

Ten Myths About Israel 86%

Ten founding myths of Israel, debunked: the land wasn't empty and the flight wasn't voluntary.

by Ilan Pappé 2017

4.40

6k+ ratings

🇵🇸 Israel-Palestine 🏴 Settler Colonialism 📜 Historical Revisionism

Déogratias

by Jean-Philippe Stassen • 2000

His Tutsi friends are dead, he helped kill them, and now only beer quiets their ghosts.

3.46

1k+

🖤 Rwandan Genocide 😔 Survivor Guilt 👻 Haunted By The Dead

Déogratias 86%

His Tutsi friends are dead, he helped kill them, and now only beer quiets their ghosts.

by Jean-Philippe Stassen 2000

3.46

1k+ ratings

🖤 Rwandan Genocide 😔 Survivor Guilt 👻 Haunted By The Dead

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

by Omar El Akkad • 2025

The liberal West is counterfeit: rules bend for power, and empathy is a weapon.

4.57

67k+

🏛️ Western Liberalism 🎭 Liberal Complicity 📰 Media Critique

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Summary

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 86%

The liberal West is counterfeit: rules bend for power, and empathy is a weapon.

by Omar El Akkad 2025

4.57

67k+ ratings

🏛️ Western Liberalism 🎭 Liberal Complicity 📰 Media Critique

There Was a Country

by Chinua Achebe • 2012

A literary witness to Biafra: starvation, secession, and the three-year war that consumed millions.

4.04

3k+

🌍 Postcolonial Africa ⛓️ Colonial Legacy 🪖 Nigerian Civil War

There Was a Country 86%

A literary witness to Biafra: starvation, secession, and the three-year war that consumed millions.

by Chinua Achebe 2012

4.04

3k+ ratings

🌍 Postcolonial Africa ⛓️ Colonial Legacy 🪖 Nigerian Civil War

The World After Gaza

by Pankaj Mishra • 2025

The West did not remember the Holocaust to prevent genocide. It remembered to license it.

4.06

1k+

🧠 Memory Politics 🕯️ Holocaust Memory 🌍 Decolonization

The World After Gaza 86%

The West did not remember the Holocaust to prevent genocide. It remembered to license it.

by Pankaj Mishra 2025

4.06

1k+ ratings

🧠 Memory Politics 🕯️ Holocaust Memory 🌍 Decolonization

First They Killed My Father

by Loung Ung • 2000

Cambodia, 1975: a five-year-old loses all to the Khmer Rouge and becomes a child soldier to survive.

4.36

55k+

💀 Cambodian Genocide 🪖 War Memoir 👧 Child Survivor

First They Killed My Father 86%

Cambodia, 1975: a five-year-old loses all to the Khmer Rouge and becomes a child soldier to survive.

by Loung Ung 2000

4.36

55k+ ratings

💀 Cambodian Genocide 🪖 War Memoir 👧 Child Survivor

Except for Palestine

by Marc Lamont Hill • 2021

Why American progressives, fierce on injustice everywhere, stay quiet when it comes to Palestine.

4.19

4k+

🌍 Middle East Policy 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🏚️ Settler Colonialism

Except for Palestine 86%

Why American progressives, fierce on injustice everywhere, stay quiet when it comes to Palestine.

by Marc Lamont Hill 2021

4.19

4k+ ratings

🌍 Middle East Policy 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🏚️ Settler Colonialism

Der Nahost-Komplex

by Natalie Amiri • 2025

A reporter tours the post-October 7 Middle East and finds Berlin's foreign policy in ruins.

4.67

118

🌍 Middle East Politics 🕊️ Israel-Palestine Conflict 🎙️ War Reporting

Der Nahost-Komplex 86%

A reporter tours the post-October 7 Middle East and finds Berlin's foreign policy in ruins.

by Natalie Amiri 2025

4.67

118 ratings

🌍 Middle East Politics 🕊️ Israel-Palestine Conflict 🎙️ War Reporting

Escape from Saddam

by Lewis Alsamari • 2007

He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.

4.05

270

🏴 Life Under Dictatorship 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 🛂 Illegal Immigration

Escape from Saddam 86%

He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.

by Lewis Alsamari 2007

4.05

270 ratings

🏴 Life Under Dictatorship 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 🛂 Illegal Immigration

Not for Sale

by David Batstone • 2007

Slavery never ended. Thirty million people are still in chains, in the country next door.

4.24

2k+

💔 Human Trafficking 🧒 Child Soldiers 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Not for Sale 86%

Slavery never ended. Thirty million people are still in chains, in the country next door.

by David Batstone 2007

4.24

2k+ ratings

💔 Human Trafficking 🧒 Child Soldiers 🔍 Investigative Journalism

The New Rulers of the World

by John Pilger • 2002

The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.

4.14

1k+

🏴 Anti-Imperialism 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📰 Media Criticism

The New Rulers of the World 86%

The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.

by John Pilger 2002

4.14

1k+ ratings

🏴 Anti-Imperialism 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📰 Media Criticism

Zeitoun

by Dave Eggers • 2009

A canoe made him a Katrina hero. Then the state labeled him a terrorist and he vanished.

4.05

80k+

🌀 Hurricane Katrina 🚫 Islamophobia ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

Zeitoun 86%

A canoe made him a Katrina hero. Then the state labeled him a terrorist and he vanished.

by Dave Eggers 2009

4.05

80k+ ratings

🌀 Hurricane Katrina 🚫 Islamophobia ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

Less Than Human

by David Livingstone Smith • 2011

Your brain can reclassify a human group as a nonhuman species. That shift makes genocide possible.

3.88

784

🐀 Dehumanization 💀 Genocide Studies 🧠 Moral Psychology

Less Than Human 86%

Your brain can reclassify a human group as a nonhuman species. That shift makes genocide possible.

by David Livingstone Smith 2011

3.88

784 ratings

🐀 Dehumanization 💀 Genocide Studies 🧠 Moral Psychology

The Management of Savagery

by Max Blumenthal • 2019

Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Trump: three products of the same American national security machine.

4.29

807

🏛️ American Empire ↩️ Blowback 🔄 Regime Change

The Management of Savagery 86%

Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Trump: three products of the same American national security machine.

by Max Blumenthal 2019

4.29

807 ratings

🏛️ American Empire ↩️ Blowback 🔄 Regime Change

Infidel

by Ayaan Hirsi Ali • 2006

FGM at five, a forced marriage, a flight to Holland, and a pen that triggered death threats.

4.20

93k+

☪️ Leaving Islam 🕌 Islamic Fundamentalism 🩸 Female Genital Mutilation

Infidel 86%

FGM at five, a forced marriage, a flight to Holland, and a pen that triggered death threats.

by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2006

4.20

93k+ ratings

☪️ Leaving Islam 🕌 Islamic Fundamentalism 🩸 Female Genital Mutilation

Culture and Resistance

by Edward W. Said • 2003

Peace rebranded, occupation maintained: dismantling the language hiding Palestinian dispossession.

4.10

419

🇵🇸 Palestinian History ⚔️ Israel Palestine 🗣️ Language And Power

Culture and Resistance 86%

Peace rebranded, occupation maintained: dismantling the language hiding Palestinian dispossession.

by Edward W. Said 2003

4.10

419 ratings

🇵🇸 Palestinian History ⚔️ Israel Palestine 🗣️ Language And Power

Hundert Tage

by Lukas Bärfuss • 2008

A Swiss development worker stays in Rwanda as genocide begins, and his moral certainty shatters.

3.70

864

🏛️ Postcolonial Fiction 🌍 Aid Worker Abroad 🪞 Western Guilt

Hundert Tage 86%

A Swiss development worker stays in Rwanda as genocide begins, and his moral certainty shatters.

by Lukas Bärfuss 2008

3.70

864 ratings

🏛️ Postcolonial Fiction 🌍 Aid Worker Abroad 🪞 Western Guilt

Desert Flower

by Waris Dirie • 1998

At thirteen she fled a forced marriage into the desert. Ahead: London, runways, and the UN.

4.25

42k+

🏕️ Somalian Memoir 🚫 Female Genital Mutilation 💍 Child Marriage

Desert Flower 86%

At thirteen she fled a forced marriage into the desert. Ahead: London, runways, and the UN.

by Waris Dirie 1998

4.25

42k+ ratings

🏕️ Somalian Memoir 🚫 Female Genital Mutilation 💍 Child Marriage

The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa

by John Azumah • 2001

Africa’s faiths must confront fourteen centuries of Islamic slavery, not a romantic myth.

4.17

🌍 African History ☪️ Islamic History 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue

The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa Summary

The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa 86%

Africa’s faiths must confront fourteen centuries of Islamic slavery, not a romantic myth.

by John Azumah 2001

4.17

36 ratings

🌍 African History ☪️ Islamic History 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue

Myth of Islamic Tolerance

by Robert Spencer • 2005

Behind Islam's tolerance story lies a legal caste system for non-Muslims, and its logic never left.

3.68

⚖️ Sharia Law 🌐 Islam And The West 📖 Critique Of Islam

Myth of Islamic Tolerance 86%

Behind Islam's tolerance story lies a legal caste system for non-Muslims, and its logic never left.

by Robert Spencer 2005

3.68

62 ratings

⚖️ Sharia Law 🌐 Islam And The West 📖 Critique Of Islam

There Was and There Was Not

by Meline Toumani • 2014

An Armenian American moves to Turkey to hate the enemy up close. Istanbul shatters her instead.

4.08

590

💔 Armenian Diaspora 🔇 Genocide Denial 🤝 Turkish Armenian Relations

There Was and There Was Not 86%

An Armenian American moves to Turkey to hate the enemy up close. Istanbul shatters her instead.

by Meline Toumani 2014

4.08

590 ratings

💔 Armenian Diaspora 🔇 Genocide Denial 🤝 Turkish Armenian Relations

The Pirates of Somalia

by Jay Bahadur • 2011

On a rattling Soviet plane, a journalist lands in Somalia to find the pirates everyone fears.

3.56

1k+

🏴‍☠️ Maritime Piracy 🏚️ Failed States 🎣 Illegal Fishing

The Pirates of Somalia 86%

On a rattling Soviet plane, a journalist lands in Somalia to find the pirates everyone fears.

by Jay Bahadur 2011

3.56

1k+ ratings

🏴‍☠️ Maritime Piracy 🏚️ Failed States 🎣 Illegal Fishing

Spectacle

by Pamela Newkirk • 2015

1906: the Bronx Zoo caged a Congolese man in the monkey house. Thousands paid to stare.

3.63

918

🦍 Human Zoos 🔬 Scientific Racism 💀 Colonial Atrocities

Spectacle 86%

1906: the Bronx Zoo caged a Congolese man in the monkey house. Thousands paid to stare.

by Pamela Newkirk 2015

3.63

918 ratings

🦍 Human Zoos 🔬 Scientific Racism 💀 Colonial Atrocities

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