Michael Seaborn

Crossing Chiromo Road Michael Seaborn

Michael Seaborn is a Canadian lawyer. In 2004, he travelled to Africa for a year to answer the question of whether he wanted to be an international humanitarian worker, ending up volunteering with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Kenya. Crossing Chiromo Road is his account of that year. Starting by knocking on doors at aid agencies in Nairobi, and through some fortuitous meetings, he spent three months in the UNHCR Nairobi offices and then six months in the Dadaab refugee camps, at the time the world's largest. Along the way he encountered long lost sons, heat, dust, neglected files, discovered deaths, bureaucratic indifference - and the remarkable stories of the refugees he worked with.