City of Thorns

Ben Rawlence 2016

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
refugee Kenya Somalia displacement

Our Take

Rawlence spent years in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, documenting nine lives suspended between countries that don't want them. The camp is not temporary — some residents have lived there for twenty years.

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