Interviews & Media
One Woman’s War-Story of Civil War in Africa
by Nadia L King, 15 March 2016
War is the everyday reality of people all over the world. Will mankind ever stop fighting wars? Will there ever be an end to rape, murder, displacement and crimes against humanity? Will it ever end? There are always the fallen from war and then there are the survivors. There is something infinitely precious about the human spirit that makes survival miraculous.
Radio interview on 96five in Australia
Memuna talks to Queensland radio on her book 'Survived; the journey'. ‘Emotionally this book is amazing, fascinating, heart rendering and up lifting.’
‘What an amazingly strong little girl she was. Memuna certainly had some power over her own life despite the situation she was in and she never lost the knowledge between good and right and that of wrong. I doubt she and her sisters would have survived without her courage.’
The story of a teenager captured by rebels in Sierra Leone
Radio New Zealand, 15 September 2014
A Wellington woman shares the harrowing story of her abduction as a teenager, by rebels during the civil war in Sierra Leone, and her eventual escape. Memuna Barnes was born in Liberia, but her family sought refuge in Sierra Leone when civil war tore through their country.
Fleeing war in search of a safer life
Interview with Unicef, August 2016
As a child, Memuna Barnes lived through two civil wars. The first was in her home country of Liberia, the second in Sierra Leone, during which she spent several years being held captive by rebel forces. She came to New Zealand with the dream of one day being reunited with her mother.