Book Review: Stronger Than Death

Stronger than Death

How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa

by Rachel Pieh Jones

Plough Publishing

Plough Publishing House

Biographies & Memoirs , Christian

Pub Date 01 Oct 2019

Stronger than death is the remarkable story of Annalena Tonelli, known as Somalia’s Mother Teresa, she unselfishly perhaps even heroically risked her life to help those in Somalia who were suffering from Tuberculosis, knowing that if she ended up with the disease it would ending a painful death.

Annalena fought amid a volatile mix of war, disease and religious fundamentalism in the horn of Africa, not knowing what a difference one woman could make, but determined to make a difference and she truly did, but it was not the disease that ended up killing her, she Was murdered, shot in the head.

Annalena was the only Christian performing routine checks on Tuberculosis. patients in a country that did not exist. She wore no outward sign of her Faith. In this part of the world, the disease was looked at as a punishment for being a bad Muslim.

In the 1960’s Annalena Tonelli was a School girl in Forli Italy. Annalena would later decide that she could not fully give herself to helping the poor if she stayed in Italy.

I give Stronger Than Death five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!