The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change by Roger Thurow is the 2013-14 One Book One Northwestern selection. The book chronicles a year in the life of four small-scale farmers in Western Kenya who, with help from a social enterprise organization founded by a Northwestern graduate, begin to transcend cyclical poverty and hunger.
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Confessions of an Aid Worker in Africa
Tuesday, May 6 at 7pm I Harris Hall 107, 1881 Sheridan Road
Jillian Reilly is a writer and public speaker focusing primarily on developing world affairs. Her aim is to inspire more honest, critical debate about development work and the local and international players involved in it. Ms Reilly addresses fundamental problems with international aid and explores ways to work within what she calls a "broken system for social change."
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One Book Administration
 Brian T. Hanson OBON Faculty Chair Interim Director of Roberta Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies |
 Nancy Cunniff Program Coordinator One Book One Northwestern |
