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Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum

By Joe Meno

June 2

The Columbia College professor interweaves the biographies of two Ghanaian men who fled their home country separately, traveled the globe seeking asylum, then serendipitously met in Minneapolis before crossing into Canada while evading ICE. Meno brings his skills as a

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