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An African author is giving voice to the children of Africa who face hardships. Uwem Akpan discusses his new book of short stories, Say You're One of Them, and explains why he feels their stories must be told.

Wind of Change

Children in a Nairobi orphanage have a new, safer home, but memories of Kenya's post-election violence remain fresh. "I worry about their nightmarish dreams, about the residue of hatred that will remain in their young minds," commentator Pius Kamau says.

Nelson Mandela's vision of a "rainbow nation" is still far from being fulfilled. Much tension still exists between black and white South Africans. This tension has boiled over into violence in several recent incidents.

Karachi, Pakistan, is choked with people and getting more crowded all the time. In one of the world's largest cities, millions of people must live in houses that were built outside the law.

Governor Schwarzenegger says the state can save money on the Medi-Cal program by making recipients prove their eligibility four times a year. Advocacy groups say that would cause many low-income Calif

The lack of governmental support on both the local and national level in Iraq has seen the flowering of grassroots groups that privately fund all sorts of things. A group in Karrada banded together to help 400 widows and orphans. Their actions embody the threatened belief that neighbors should help neighbors.

Airs Monday, June 13, 2016 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

A Karachi ambulance driver named Mohammed Nader is emblematic of the changing face of Pakistani cities. Nader came to Karachi from a rural village, got married and found a job, like many of the world's population that migrates to urban areas. But political and ethnic conflicts still threatened his life.

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