In Episode 18, Dewey Decibel steps out onto the international stage. First, American Libraries Associate Editor and Dewey Decibel host Phil Morehart talks with Sandra Uwiringiyimana, author of How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of War Child (HarperCollins, 2017), which chronicles her life as a survivor of the 2004 Gatumba massacre in Burundi and as a refugee in the United States. They discuss the book, the plight of refugees in the US, and the importance of books and learning in her life. Next, American Libraries Associate Editor and Dewey Decibel Foreign Correspondent Terra Dankowski reports from the 2017 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Congress in Wroclaw, Poland, where she talks to librarians from around the world about cataloguing, LGBTQ issues, and more. Finally, Morehart talks to acclaimed author and poet Kwame Alexander about LEAP for Ghana, a program that he cofounded in 2012 that’s working to build a library for a small village in eastern Ghana.

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