Chinua Achebe
Describe the scene of illness and misery in Refugee Mother and Child .
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From the text:
The air was heavy with odours
of diarrhoea of unwashed children
with washed-out ribs and dried-up
bottoms struggling in laboured
steps behind blown empty bellies.
Refugee Mother and Child