![]() ![]() ![]() Our texts of study have affirmed that peace will continue to elude us in the home front and at the world level if strong measures are not taken to tackle the violation and the continuous subordination of women. Marginalisation in a sexist and patriarchal society. This study examines the extent of women’s struggles to overcome ![]() The essay further posits that in the celebration of Nigerian history, even when 'temporarily dislocated', as well as our legitimate niche in the Commonwealth of Nations, as she has done in Half of a Yellow Sun, Adichie educates non-Africans and alienated Africans about the indomitable African spirit. In this novel, she, in addition to other things, shows the wickedness perpetrated by overzealous African converts who often demand and expect (from their dependants) the degree of self-negation which Soyinka has identified as cultural hostility. It attempts to show that in the successful execution of her goals and objectives in Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Adichie mounts the rostrum reserved for the African masters of the art. This essay traces specifically the issue of religious ideology/conflict from Achebe through Ngũgĩ to Adichie. The colonial experience of the African and the imposition of colonial values on the African worldview are factors that indeed had provided the impetus and even motivation for much of the literary production in the continent. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() 'Brown has been our best parodist and satirist for decades now. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays, Ma'am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society. It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. In her 1950's heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. "If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies" he confided to a friend, "they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!" Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. ![]() For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. ![]() She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. ![]() ![]() But here he reveals a personal story few have heard, taking us from his mostly happy childhood-and riotous triumphs at Yale-to the nightmare of drifting toward a dark abyss of meaninglessness from which he barely escapes. Renowned for his biographies of William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther, Metaxas is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, the witty host of the acclaimed Socrates in the City conversation series, and a nationally syndicated radio personality. What Happens When One of America's Most Admired Biographers Writes His Own Biography? For Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life -a poetic and sometimes hilarious memoir of his early years, in which the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit. ![]() ![]() ![]() The lawyer had been invited onto the show to discuss whether journalist Isabel Oakeshott’s decision to leak Hancock’s WhatsApp messages during the pandemic was in the public interest. “I asked you not to mention that and you mentioned it.” “When your own television station has engaged in correspondence with me where I explained that I’m in a position to be able to comment on this and mentioned I’d been approached by Matt Hancock,” the media law specialist continues. “I made it absolutely clear to your programme, I asked them not to disclose that,” Coad responds. ![]() The clip, shared widely on Twitter, shows lawyer Jonathan Coad scolding the show’s host Steve N Allen for mentioning that he was “actually recently asked to act for Matt Hancock”. There was an incredibly awkward moment on GB News yesterday evening when a lawyer criticised a presenter for revealing he had been asked to act for Matt Hancock. Awkward Steve N Allen and Jonathan Coad – credit GB News ![]() ![]() ![]() In this taut and suspenseful medical drama, Richard Preston deeply chronicles the outbreak, in which we saw for the first time the specter of Ebola jumping continents, crossing the Atlantic, and infecting people in America. ![]() By the end-as the virus mutated into its deadliest form, and spread farther and faster than ever before-30,000 people would be infected, and the dead would be spread across eight countries on three continents. The ensuing global drama activated health professionals in North America, Europe, and Africa in a desperate race against time to contain the viral wildfire. This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had contact with a wild creature and whose entire family quickly fell ill and died. 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She returned to the college March 1, the book's release date, for a celebratory lunch with the faculty who helped make it happen. But in the case of Jodi Picoult's book Sing You Home, it might just take a department. It doesn't take a village to write a novel. ![]() ![]() Teasingly, he dipped his index finger into the dark blue paint as if it were cream he would lick off. Vinnie knelt on the floor beside me with an open pot of paint in his hand. ![]() “Lie back on the sofa for me and I'll paint you.”Īs if in a dream, I settled my head against one arm of the sofa, my legs dangling over the other end, scarcely breathing now. Vinnie led me across the room, pulling me by the shirt. ![]() But if they believe, and if they keep their faith in the night sky and each other, just maybe they can make their dreams of love come true. When Ben thinks Vinnie spends too much time with a fellow artist, his jealousy drives a wedge between them and forces Vinnie into the very thing Ben dreads.īen and Vinnie will have to walk through fire before they can find one another again. ![]() They begin a relationship beneath the night sky, God’s own canvas.īut every relationship has its ups and downs and so it is with theirs. On the night of the sitting, Vinnie fingerpaints the starry night on Ben’s chest. ![]() From a wealthy family, Ben purchases some of Vinnie’s art and arranges for the artist to personally hang the paintings in his apartment.īen commissions Vinnie to paint his portrait, in order to spend more time with the artist. Ben admires Vinnie’s painting of the university building, so Vinnie invites him to an exhibition of his artwork. A mutual interest in art draws two shy university students together. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reviewers and/or bloggers may quote brief passages in a review or for promotional purposes only. 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The only way to gain an audience with the king-and reveal Javan’s identity-is to fight in Maqbara’s yearly tournament. But his eagerly awaited return home is cut short when a mysterious impostor takes his place-and no one believes Javan is the true prince.Īfter barely escaping the impostor’s assassins, Javan is thrown into Maqbara, the kingdom’s most dangerous prison. Javan Najafai, crown prince of Akram, has spent the last ten years at an elite boarding school, far away from his kingdom. Perfect for fans of the Court of Thorns and Roses series and the Wrath and the Dawn duology, The Traitor Prince is a thrilling new standalone novel in the Ravenspire series. ![]() A dark epic fantasy inspired by The Prince and the Pauper and the fairy tale The False Prince, from bestselling author C. ![]() ![]() ![]() Something like 100,000 years part in linguistic phylogeny. He could not know Gobekli Tepe, the surrounding settlements, the Natufian villages, etc., all going back to 12,000 years BC which is more than 6,000 or 7,000 years before the Egyptian civilization and 9,000 before the invention of the first known writing system in the Middle East, the Sumerian writing system too often identified as the Akkadian cuneiform writing system because the scribes were Akkadian speaking a Semitic language though the language was Sumerian, a synthetic-analytical language, probably post-agglutinative. ![]() We cannot of course reproach the author with what he could not know in 1976. It insists on the leading role it played in some periods and it tries to find out in what periods there existed contact between Black Africa and the Americas. ![]() It asserted the historical participation of Black Africa as far back as the birth of the Egyptian civilization. BLACK AFRICA’S HISTORY This book was salvational in many ways at the time of its publication. ![]() |