Author: Sophia Acheampong
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1848122187
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
How do you reconcile your heritage with the realities of teen life? Makeeda's plans for the summer holidays are falling apart! Her parents suddenly announce that the family is going on a trip to visit their relatives in Ghana - and then she splits up with her boyfriend Nelson. Can things get any worse? But in Ghana things are different, and Makeeda, the sophisticated London girl, makes some surprising discoveries about herself, her family and her friends. And, while she's struggling to reconcile her two cultures, could it be that she's found true love where she least expected it?
Ipods in Accra
Author: Sophia Acheampong
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1848122187
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
How do you reconcile your heritage with the realities of teen life? Makeeda's plans for the summer holidays are falling apart! Her parents suddenly announce that the family is going on a trip to visit their relatives in Ghana - and then she splits up with her boyfriend Nelson. Can things get any worse? But in Ghana things are different, and Makeeda, the sophisticated London girl, makes some surprising discoveries about herself, her family and her friends. And, while she's struggling to reconcile her two cultures, could it be that she's found true love where she least expected it?
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1848122187
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
How do you reconcile your heritage with the realities of teen life? Makeeda's plans for the summer holidays are falling apart! Her parents suddenly announce that the family is going on a trip to visit their relatives in Ghana - and then she splits up with her boyfriend Nelson. Can things get any worse? But in Ghana things are different, and Makeeda, the sophisticated London girl, makes some surprising discoveries about herself, her family and her friends. And, while she's struggling to reconcile her two cultures, could it be that she's found true love where she least expected it?
Growing Yams in London
Author: Sophia Acheampong
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1848123248
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
How do you reconcile your heritage with the realities of teen life? Makeeda loves her life and her friends in London. Her parents wish she'd spend less time texting her mates and more time finding out about her Ghanian roots. So when she meets the very fit DJ Nelson, Makeeda starts to break her family's rules. Life gets even more complicated when she falls out with her best friend, Bharti. Can Makeeda find a way to be true to herself as well as respect her culture?
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1848123248
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
How do you reconcile your heritage with the realities of teen life? Makeeda loves her life and her friends in London. Her parents wish she'd spend less time texting her mates and more time finding out about her Ghanian roots. So when she meets the very fit DJ Nelson, Makeeda starts to break her family's rules. Life gets even more complicated when she falls out with her best friend, Bharti. Can Makeeda find a way to be true to herself as well as respect her culture?
Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Author: Eleanor Spencer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000969053
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children’s and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Written by intellectual leaders in the field from the UK, the Americas, Europe, and Australia, this collection of essays explores the significance of the family and of familial and quasi-familial relationships in texts by a wide range of authors, including the Grimms, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Rudyard Kipling, Enid Blyton, Judy Blume, Jaqueline Wilson, Malorie Blackman, Melvin Burgess, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, and others. Author-based and critical survey essays explore evolving depictions of LGBTQIA+ and BAME families; migrant and refugee narratives; the popular tropes of the orphan protagonist and the wicked stepmother; sibling and intergenerational familial relationships; fathers and fatherhood; the anthropomorphic animal and surrogate family; and the fractured family in paranormal and dystopian YA literature. The breadth of essays in Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature encourages readers to think beyond the outdated but culturally privileged ‘nuclear family’ and is a vital resource for students, academics, educators, and practitioners.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000969053
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children’s and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Written by intellectual leaders in the field from the UK, the Americas, Europe, and Australia, this collection of essays explores the significance of the family and of familial and quasi-familial relationships in texts by a wide range of authors, including the Grimms, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Rudyard Kipling, Enid Blyton, Judy Blume, Jaqueline Wilson, Malorie Blackman, Melvin Burgess, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, and others. Author-based and critical survey essays explore evolving depictions of LGBTQIA+ and BAME families; migrant and refugee narratives; the popular tropes of the orphan protagonist and the wicked stepmother; sibling and intergenerational familial relationships; fathers and fatherhood; the anthropomorphic animal and surrogate family; and the fractured family in paranormal and dystopian YA literature. The breadth of essays in Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature encourages readers to think beyond the outdated but culturally privileged ‘nuclear family’ and is a vital resource for students, academics, educators, and practitioners.
Oxford Street, Accra
Author: Ato Quayson
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376296
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district. He traces the city's evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. He combines his impressions of the sights, sounds, interactions, and distribution of space with broader dynamics, including the histories of colonial and postcolonial town planning and the marks of transnationalism evident in Accra's salsa scene, gym culture, and commercial billboards. Quayson finds that the various planning systems that have shaped the city—and had their stratifying effects intensified by the IMF-mandated structural adjustment programs of the late 1980s—prepared the way for the early-1990s transformation of a largely residential neighborhood into a kinetic shopping district. With an intense commercialism overlying, or coexisting with, stark economic inequalities, Oxford Street is a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metropolis that it is today.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376296
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district. He traces the city's evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. He combines his impressions of the sights, sounds, interactions, and distribution of space with broader dynamics, including the histories of colonial and postcolonial town planning and the marks of transnationalism evident in Accra's salsa scene, gym culture, and commercial billboards. Quayson finds that the various planning systems that have shaped the city—and had their stratifying effects intensified by the IMF-mandated structural adjustment programs of the late 1980s—prepared the way for the early-1990s transformation of a largely residential neighborhood into a kinetic shopping district. With an intense commercialism overlying, or coexisting with, stark economic inequalities, Oxford Street is a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metropolis that it is today.
Daily Graphic
Author: Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Daily Graphic
Author: Ransford Tetteh
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Graphic Showbiz
Author: Nanabanyin Dadson
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Daily Graphic
Author:
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Digital Inclusion
Author: Massimo Ragnedda
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498562132
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink ways to avoid forms of digital exclusion or digital discrimination. This edited collection comprises of chapters written by respected scholars from a variety of countries, and brings together new scholarship addressing what the process of digital inclusion means for individuals and places in the countries analyzed. Each country has its own strategy to guarantee that people can access and enjoy the benefits of the information society. While this book does not presume to map all the countries in the world, it does shed light into these strategies, underlining what each country is doing in order to reduce digital inequalities and to guarantee that socially disadvantaged people (in terms of disabilities, availability of resources, age, geographic location, lack of education, or ethnicity) are digitally included.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498562132
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink ways to avoid forms of digital exclusion or digital discrimination. This edited collection comprises of chapters written by respected scholars from a variety of countries, and brings together new scholarship addressing what the process of digital inclusion means for individuals and places in the countries analyzed. Each country has its own strategy to guarantee that people can access and enjoy the benefits of the information society. While this book does not presume to map all the countries in the world, it does shed light into these strategies, underlining what each country is doing in order to reduce digital inequalities and to guarantee that socially disadvantaged people (in terms of disabilities, availability of resources, age, geographic location, lack of education, or ethnicity) are digitally included.
Digital Media Ecologies
Author: Sy Taffel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501349252
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Our digital world is often described using terms such as immateriality and virtuality. The discourse of cloud computing is the latest in a long line of nebulous, dematerialising tropes which have come to dominate how we think about information and communication technologies. Digital Media Ecologies argues that such rhetoric is highly misleading, and that engaging with the key cultural, agential, ethical and political impacts of contemporary media requires that we do not just engage with the surface level of content encountered by the end users of digital media, but that we must additionally consider the affordances of software and hardware. Whilst numerous existing approaches explore content, software and hardware individually, Digital Media Ecologies provides a critical intervention by insisting that addressing contemporary technoculture requires a synthetic approach that traverses these three registers. Digital Media Ecologies re-envisions the methodological approach of media ecology to go beyond the metaphor of a symbolic information environment that exists alongside a material world of tantalum, turtles and tornados. It illustrates the social, cultural, political and environmental impacts of contemporary media assemblages through examples that include mining conflict-sustaining minerals, climate change blogging, iOS jailbreaking, and the ecological footprint of contemporary computing infrastructures. Alongside foregrounding the deleterious social and environmental impacts of digital technologies, the book considers numerous ways that these issues are being tackled by a heterogeneous array of activists, academics, hackers, scientists and citizens using the same technological assemblages that ostensibly cause these problems.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501349252
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Our digital world is often described using terms such as immateriality and virtuality. The discourse of cloud computing is the latest in a long line of nebulous, dematerialising tropes which have come to dominate how we think about information and communication technologies. Digital Media Ecologies argues that such rhetoric is highly misleading, and that engaging with the key cultural, agential, ethical and political impacts of contemporary media requires that we do not just engage with the surface level of content encountered by the end users of digital media, but that we must additionally consider the affordances of software and hardware. Whilst numerous existing approaches explore content, software and hardware individually, Digital Media Ecologies provides a critical intervention by insisting that addressing contemporary technoculture requires a synthetic approach that traverses these three registers. Digital Media Ecologies re-envisions the methodological approach of media ecology to go beyond the metaphor of a symbolic information environment that exists alongside a material world of tantalum, turtles and tornados. It illustrates the social, cultural, political and environmental impacts of contemporary media assemblages through examples that include mining conflict-sustaining minerals, climate change blogging, iOS jailbreaking, and the ecological footprint of contemporary computing infrastructures. Alongside foregrounding the deleterious social and environmental impacts of digital technologies, the book considers numerous ways that these issues are being tackled by a heterogeneous array of activists, academics, hackers, scientists and citizens using the same technological assemblages that ostensibly cause these problems.