Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, And Hope In An African Slum

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Find Me Unafraid by Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner is a 2015 nonfiction memoir chronicling their meeting, romance, and collaboration to build schools for underserved youth and instigate change in Kibera, one of Africa’s largest urban slums. They met when Jessica, an American student, volunteered for Kennedy’s nonprofit in Kenya. Despite starkly different backgrounds, they fall in love, face challenges in their cross-cultural relationship, and work together to expand educational opportunities through their organization, SHOFCO, achieving success in both their personal and professional lives. The book addresses themes of systemic poverty, violence, and social empowerment.