The childhood deprivation of wartime Afghanistan parallels poverty in Somali Wajir
Evidence
I remembered a line from The Kite Runner as I looked at Mohamed and his classmates: “There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.” Khalid Hosseini’s reflections about Afghanistan could have easily been written with Wajir, and the Somali child between the glass and me, in mind. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 91
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- XREF: Bridges Beydoun to a familiar literary/cultural touchstone (The Kite Runner) a reader can anchor on, and echoes the same ‘children without childhood’ idea from other sources on the Global South.