A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World by Edna Adan Ismail, Wendy Holden

A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World

Edna Adan Ismail, Wendy Holden

322 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative inspiring slow-paced
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Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all - for the women of Africa. Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of education and ancient superstitions had devastating effects on Somaliland's people, especially its ...

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