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Refugee boy, Benjamin Zephaniah, 3/50.
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Zephaniah famously turned down the Queen’s offer of an OBE due to his rejection of the concept and history of that Empire (interview, and rejection poem, here.) He’s better known as a poet, but he's also written at least four children’s books.
Refugee Boy is about Alem Kelo, a boy with an Ethiopian father and an Eritrean mother. The war between the two means that his family is safe in neither place, and instead his father takes him to the UK, where they have friends there working for peace – and leaves him. Alem is placed initially in a children’s home, and then with a foster family, as his application for refugee status progresses through the British legal system.
( Vague spoilers. )
50books_pocZephaniah famously turned down the Queen’s offer of an OBE due to his rejection of the concept and history of that Empire (interview, and rejection poem, here.) He’s better known as a poet, but he's also written at least four children’s books.
Refugee Boy is about Alem Kelo, a boy with an Ethiopian father and an Eritrean mother. The war between the two means that his family is safe in neither place, and instead his father takes him to the UK, where they have friends there working for peace – and leaves him. Alem is placed initially in a children’s home, and then with a foster family, as his application for refugee status progresses through the British legal system.
( Vague spoilers. )
