Humanitarian Fictions Yakov Pesin Bringing together a group of

Bringing together a group of medical experts from Sierra Leone and across the globe to tell their stories and offer hard-learned lessons

through years of struggle to achieve full academic recognition as the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

multidirectional identities not only abroad but also back home

seeks to silence dissent

Humanitarian Fictions Yakov Pesin Bringing together a group ofHumanitarianism has a narrative problem. Far too often, aid to Africa is envisioned through a tale of Western heroes saving African sufferers. While labeling white savior narratives has become a familiar gesture, it doesn't tell us much about the story as story. Humanitarian Fictions aims to understand the workings of humanitarian literature, as they engage with and critique narratives of Africa. Overlapping with but distinct from human rights,