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Money Has No Smell
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Paul Stoller |
Blending ethnographic description with social analysis, Stoller shows how West African entrepreneurs have built cohesive and effective multinational trading networks in New York. Their stories illumi… |
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Dreams of Africa in Alabama
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Sylviane A. Diouf |
Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, recounting their capture and passage i… |
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Barracoon
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Alice Walker,Zora Neale Hurston,Ibram X. Kendi |
The true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, illegally smuggled from Africa on the last "black cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. |
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The final ultimatum
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Unoma Nwankwor |
Under dire circumstances, Olanma Obinze agreed to an ultimatum to marry bad boy Abayomi Rice or else she would not get the incredible job she interviewed for. Although the romance began passionately,… |
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My heart will cross this ocean
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Craig Wolff,Kadiatou Diallo |
Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. T… |
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