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Grant Park Shopping Centre: Winnipeg's Anne Mahon borrowed from her experience as a volunteer to interview refugees from Africa about the horrors that ejected them from their homes. The often chilling accounts of loss, war, genocide, rape and violence compiled in this book are also profoundly inspiring. The book will be launched on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers at Grant Park Shopping Centre. Azarias, Rwanda, according to Winnipeg Free Press. 'To be a refugee is to be powerless -- you leave your home, you leave your property, you leave your friends and relatives, and you go alone. ' -Azarias, Rwanda Excerpted from The Lucky Ones: African Refugees' Stories of Extraordinary Courage with permission from Great Plains Publications -- Copyright 2013 . To be a refugee is to be powerless -- you leave your home, you leave your property, you leave your friends and relatives, and you go alone. I know; I spent 12 years living as a refugee, mostly in Kenya. I watched my children being born and my wife die in those refugee camps. I have seen suffering -- so much suffering -- but I have seen goodness, too. The people I've met in Canada just don't know what is happening in the refugee camps in Africa. It is my hope that by sharing my experiences I will help Canadians understand what life was really like there. Enlarge Image (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.