A Congolese Refugee's Quest for a Purpose and Better Life

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>What does it mean to grow up defined by a label you never chose-<em>refugee</em>-and still insist on shaping a life of hope and purpose?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>In </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)><em>A Congolese Refugee's Quest for a Purpose and Better Life</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Gentille Meda Dusenge</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> takes readers inside the often-invisible world of displacement where childhood is spent in the confines of a Rwandan refugee camp and adolescence unfolds under the weight of stigma poverty and gendered expectations. From Kiziba's clay huts to the lecture rooms of Kepler University from heartbreaking exclusion to the triumph of education Dusenge charts her journey as a daughter sister wife mother student teacher and advocate. Her story exposes structural violence that constrains millions of displaced people and challenges systems that silence refugee voices. It is a testimony to the power of persistence education and self-determination while offering a vision of what is possible when refugees become part of the change that is needed. This book is ideal reading for students of Forced Migration Displacement Refugee Studies Migration Studies Gender Studies Sociology and Education Studies as well as policy makers.</span></p><p></p>