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Broken Dreams (2nd edition)

Amid the smouldering tension of impending civil war, Pete Gutter Ogwu and his wife Teresa are forced to flee their home in western Nigeria, leaving behind a young son and their housemaid. Adopted by Madam Cash, Femi grows up to be an idealistic socialist writer, convinced that he is destined for greatness. Bimbo, the result of a fetish union between Ogwu and a local m

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Bridging the Digital Divide: Innovations Systems for ICT in Brazil, China, India, Thailand and Southern Africa

“The impressive advances of information and communication technologies (ICT) in some Asian countries have led some people to proclaim a fundamental change in the world economy. It is essential still to study the experience of developing countries thoroughly and critically. The authors and editors have made an admirable contribution to make such an evaluation and

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Globalisation, Inequalities and the Commodification of Life and Wellbeing (With Foreword by Samir Amin)

(With a Foreword by Samir Amin) Wealth and money, which are meant to be sources of human happiness and facilitators of good social relations has instead become a monstrosity beyond human control. The unbridled quest to make money and accumulate wealth as well as assign social signification on the basis of the outcome of individuals’ efforts in

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As They See It: The Development of the African AIDS Discourse

African AIDS, in the West, is often associated with media images of skeletal, forlorn-looking and dying Africans inviting the sympathy of the viewer or reader. Associated with these images are often motleys of subtly hidden narratives - poverty, promiscuity, failed leadership, impending Armageddon, and lately the greed and heartlessness of Western drugs companies who

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From Conflict to Collaboration: Building Peace in Nigeria's Oil-Producing Communities

One of the major policy challenges for the US following the events of September 11 2001 and their aftermaths has been how to reduce the country’s dependence on oil from the Middle East. There have been suggestions of policy shifts in Washington in which Africa’s share of US oil imports will rise dramatically over the next few years. Nigeria, one o

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The Spirit Sets Free

The Spirit Sets Free reflects on the Spirit setting free from within as a basis for the spontaneous enthusiasm of hope and joy, expressed in general liveliness, music and dance. This poses the challenge of laying the foundation of moral integrity as the second stage of African renaissance. The commitment to this challenge of moral integrity makes African spirituality

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Internationalisation and Enterprise Development in Ghana

Policy makers and scholars consider private enterprise development as one of the most promising avenues of economic growth in Africa. To grow, enterprises must improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations, often through internationalisation. It is generally believed that internationalisation enhances the technological and managerial capacities of firms

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Blighted Blues

Chrys Chimé, a postgraduate student at Southampton, writes a book: The Wacky World of Dark Dictators. Many Publishers were not impressed, but Pete Alott, an upstart publisher and son of a British publishing mogul decides to gamble on it. The book stirs up the Rastamuffins, an obscure group of fundamentalist Rastafarians, who considered it heretical and a collec

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Samassi

Samassi, a young man from one of the French-speaking African countries, secures a scholarship to study in London. Midway through his English language course his scholarship is withdrawn, forcing him to take up jobs to support himself. He graduates and eventually secures a good job – after several futile attempts. For an African with accent, Samassi&rsqu

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Flight From Fate

African culture forbids children from speaking ill of their parents. Parental brutality, autocracy or neglect must either be denied or accepted as part of a strict upbringing regime designed to ensure that children are well-brought up to become useful to themselves in the future. Evans Kinyua breaks rank with this tradition. In a brutally frank and mov

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