Little Bee
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Maintaining universal primary education : lessons from Commonwealth Africa
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xi, 154 pages : 24 cm "Lalage Bown and her co-researchers from the Council for Education in the Commonwealth explore the various economic, political and social pressures which may affect the progress of educational provision, as well as the different national educational policies…
Married to Africa : a love story
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x, 258 pages ; 24 cm G. Pascal Zachary is a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal when he finds love in, of all places, the zoo in Accra, Ghana. That is where he meets Chizo Okon, the surrogate mother for an orphaned chimpanzee. In Married to Africa, Zachary tells the…
Mister Johnson
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227 pages ; 22 cm
News from home : short stories
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295 pages ; 21 cm The miracle worker -- Hailstones on Zamfara -- Spoils -- Lawless -- Twilight trek -- A temporary position -- Madness in the family -- Last trip -- News from home -- Green -- Yahoo Yahoo
Noam Chomsky - 2009-06-12 - American Power and the New Mandarins - 40th Anniversary - New York - Improved Sound
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Noam begins speaking at 16:93 in. On June 12, 2009 Noam Chomsky spoke at the historic Riverside Church in New York City. The occasion was the 40th anniversary of his first book on political matters, _American Power and the New Mandarins_. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! introduces…
Oil, politics and violence : Nigeria's military coup culture (1966-1976)
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xvi, 268 p. : 23 cm "An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the Giant of Africa, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most ed…
Olanna's big day
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32 pages : 27 cm "There's great excitement when the school band is chosen to march in the Saint Patrick's Day Parade. Olanna practises really hard on her tin whistle. At last the big day arrives and they line up with the stilt-walkers, the bagpipers, the dancing leprechauns. Then…
Open heavens. Volume 10, 2010
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1 volume (unpaged) ; 21 cm Daily Bible study texts, each with a memory verse and action point
The other hand
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360 pages (large print) ; 24 cm This is a TRULY SPECIAL STORY - to tell you what happens would spoil it ... Nevertheless, you need to know that it is EXTREMELY FUNNY, but the African beach scene is HORRIFIC ... The story starts there, but the book doesn't ... AND IT'S WHAT HAPPEN…
The other hand
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378 pages ; 18 cm 'The Other Hand' is a novel by Chris Cleave, the author of 'Incendiary'. Deeply moving, yet light in touch, it explores the nature of loss, hope, love and identity with atrocity as its backdrop Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-378)
Pirates
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viii, 236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm Pirates have been around as long as people have used the oceans as trade routes, and their reign on the world's high seas has inspired many a novelist. But the type of pirate Ross Kemp is investigating now is a world away fro…
Pirates
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viii, 236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm Pirates have been around as long as people have used the oceans as trade routes, and their reign on the world's high seas has inspired many a novelist. But the type of pirate Ross Kemp is investigating now is a world away fro…
Say you're one of them
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294 pages : Presents a collection of five stories set in various African countries, revealing the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa Originally published: 2008
Say you're one of them
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An ex-mas feast -- Fattening for Gabon -- What language is that? -- Luxurious hearses -- My parents' bedroom This collection of five stories set in various African countries reveals the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize fo…
The shadow of a smile
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314 pages ; 22 cm
The thing around your neck
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Cell one -- Imitation -- A private experience -- Ghosts -- On Monday of last week -- Jumping monkey hill -- The thing around your neck -- The American embassy -- The shivering -- The arrangers of marriage -- Tomorrow is too far -- The headstrong historian
Things fall apart
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[8], 209, [6] pages ; 21 cm First published in 1959, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intr…
Things fall apart
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[8], 209, [6] pages ; 21 cm First published in 1959, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intr…
Yoruba women, work, and social change
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xiv, 336 p. : 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-320) and index Opening -- Sources and questions -- Yorubaland, 1820-1893 -- Colonial Yorubaland, 1893-1960 -- Family and marriage -- Labor, property, and agriculture -- Income-generating activities in the nineteent…
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