is a heroine’s journey of a woman…who was not afraid to confront the conflict in the Congo, who did not worry about how much it would cost her personally to engage. In the foreword to the book, Zainab Salbi (as cited in Shannon, 2011, p.12 emphasis in the original) explains that for survivors, theirs is a story of ‘triumph over evil, the sheer force of will to survive and stand tall’.
This question would lead Lisa to abandon her career, her fiancé and her comfortable life in the US to raise money and dedicate herself to the plight of raped women in the DRC. After conducting more research into the atrocities being committed in the DRC, she asked herself: ‘what if I had tried to help?’ (Shannon, 2011, p. Lisa first learned about rape and the crimes being committed in the Congo after watching an episode of Oprah. The book, A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman, was written by Lisa Shannon. The full terms of this licence may be seen at Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this work (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. This work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence.
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