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Second-class Citizen
  • Author : Buchi Emecheta
  • Release Date : 11 August 1994
  • Publisher : Heinemann
  • Genre : African fiction (English)
  • Pages : 196
  • ISBN 13 : 0435909916
Ratings: 4.5
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Book Description: Adah, a woman from the Ibo tribe, moves to England o live with her Nigerian student husband. She soon discovers that life for a young Nigerian woman living in London in the 1960s is grim. Rejected by British society and thwarted by her husband, who expect

Second class Citizen

Second class Citizen

Author : Buchi Emecheta
Publisher : Heinemann
Genre : African fiction (English)
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Adah, a woman from the Ibo tribe, moves to England o live with her Nigerian student husband. She soon discovers that life for a young Nigerian woman living in London in the 1960s is grim. Rejected by British society and thwarted by her husband, who expect...

Second Class Citizen

Second Class Citizen

Author : Buchi Emecheta
Publisher : Penguin UK
Genre : Fiction
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'Fresh, timeless ... a lively work of art' Observer 'Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women's writing . . . powerful fictions written from and about our lives' Bernardine Evaristo 'Most dreams, as all dreamers know quite well, do have setbacks. Adah's dream was no exception, for hers had many' They nicknamed ...

Property and Political Order in Africa

Property and Political Order in Africa

Author : Catherine Boone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Genre : Law
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In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts, and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities, and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In ...

Border Citizens

Border Citizens

Author : Eric V. Meeks
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Genre : Social Science
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In Border Citizens, historian Eric V. Meeks explores how the racial classification and identities of the diverse indigenous, mestizo, and Euro-American residents of Arizona’s borderlands evolved as the region was politically and economically incorporated into the United States. First published in 2007, the book examines the complex relationship between racial ...

Community Approaches to Child Welfare

Community Approaches to Child Welfare

Author : Lena Dominelli
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Political Science
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Published in 1999, Community Approaches to Child Welfare is written by both practitioners and academics to explore ways in which community-based, preventative approaches to child welfare can be used to support families experiencing behavioural problems with children or undergoing difficulties in raising them. Specific practice examples developed in Britain, Canada and ...

Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy

Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy

Author : Karen Soldatic,Kelley Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Social Science
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This book explores the diverse ways in which disability activism and advocacy are experienced and practised by people with disabilities and their allies. Contributors to the book explore the very different strategies and campaigns they have used to have their demands for respect, dignity and rights heard and acted upon ...

Second Class Citizens

Second Class Citizens

Author : Stef Benstead
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Uncategorized
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The author examines whether the United Nations' severe criticisms of the UK Government's social and economic policies are valid, demonstrating that it has indeed undermined vital human rights and targeted disabled people and other minority groups....

The Bride Price

The Bride Price

Author : Buchi Emecheta
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
Genre : Fiction
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A novel by a Nigerian-born author which explores the constraints of a tradition under which women are defined in purely monetary terms. When Aku-nna and her family are inherited by her uncle, who values her only for the high bride-price she is expected to fetch, she defies convention and society....

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Muslim Minorities and Social Cohesion

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Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Religion
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This book examines various attempts in the ‘West’ to manage cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity – focusing on Muslim minorities in predominantly non-Muslim societies. An international panel of contributors chart evolving national identities and social values, assessing the way that both contemporary ‘Western’ societies and contemporary Muslim minorities view themselves and ...

The Good Citizen

The Good Citizen

Author : JoAnne Myers
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Political Science
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Using applied political theory, JoAnne Myers presents five markers by which citizens become second-class citizens—property, productivity, participation, patriotism, and reproduction. Citizenship is a highly contested status since it grants members political rights and responsibilities. It is contextualized by cultural, political, historical, economic, situational, and place. In the United States, ...

Hiding in Plain Sight

Hiding in Plain Sight

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
Genre : Fiction
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A bold new novel that “augments a body of work worthy of a Nobel Prize” (Kirkus Reviews), from the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn Nuruddin Farah—“the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years” (The New York Review of Books)—returns with a provocative, ...

The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow

Author : Michelle Alexander
Publisher : The New Press
Genre : Law
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Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Eduction‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—“one of the most influential books of the past 20 years,” according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—...