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Dominica: Death of a village

Written byGeorgia Popplewell
Posted 6 February 2006 19:14 GMT

ThandieLand laments the “death” of her home village in Dominica, tracing its depopulation to migration (internal and external), especially in the aftermath of 1979's Hurricane David. She compares her village's situation to that of the ancestral community of a Kenyan friend which has been decimated by HIV/AIDS.

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