Author: Nnamdi Azikiwe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Markets
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Onitsha Market Crisis
Author: Nnamdi Azikiwe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Markets
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Markets
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Dreams From My Mother
Author: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
Publisher: Seven Dials
ISBN: 1841885231
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
What a page turner of a book! Dame Elizabeth uncovers the layers of her life from a childhood defined by secrets, to discovering the identity of her father, to her political awakening, and her journey to becoming a Black health radical. She uses her "bellyful of anger" to great effect, highlighting the ethnic health inequalities exposed by sickle cell disease right through to Covid-19. More than anything, her great sense of empathy and fun shine out from the page. I loved it. - DUA LIPA Dreams From My Mother is a beautiful memoir detailing an extraordinary life. Dame Elizabeth Anionwu is a an incredible role model for nurses - and for everyone. - CHRISTIE WATSON, author of The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story What a woman. What a book. - LEMN SISSAY OBE, author of My Name Is Why * * * It's 1947 and a sheltered Catholic girl is studying Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the first one in her family to go to university - and then she discovers that she's pregnant. The father is also a student at Cambridge, studying law. And he is black. Despite pressure to give up her baby for adoption, the young mother has big dreams for her child's future. Her daughter Elizabeth overcomes a background of shame, stigma, and discrimination, to become one of the UK's greatest ever nurses, and the first ever sickle cell nurse specialist. Recently named a BBC 100 Women of the Year 2020 and awarded a Damehood, Dame Elizabeth Anionwu has continued her work throughout her retirement, and recently brought to the nation's attention how Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on Black and Asian communities. Dreams From My Mother is an inspiring story about childhood, race, identity, family, friendship, hope and what makes us who we are. Ultimately, it is an incredibly moving story of a mother and a daughter separated by society, but united in the dreams they shared for her future. Previously published as Mixed Blessings From A Cambridge Union, this is a revised and updated edition * * * This is a powerful and compelling story of dual heritage, how an Irish girl became a Nigerian woman, and how discovering a true and total sense of identity brought acceptance, peace and joy. This story will inspire many people who have Irish and African (and other) roots and should be read by all who are interested in the history and culture of those lands. It is a unique and deeply personal account of the triumph of character, spirit and endeavour in the face of much adversity and considerable bigotry, beautifully written with a complete absence of bitterness. I felt in equal measure humbled and privileged to read it. I never cry but the concluding reflection on the mother and daughter relationship made me cry unashamedly. - PATRICK GAUL, Chair, Liverpool Irish Centre
Publisher: Seven Dials
ISBN: 1841885231
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
What a page turner of a book! Dame Elizabeth uncovers the layers of her life from a childhood defined by secrets, to discovering the identity of her father, to her political awakening, and her journey to becoming a Black health radical. She uses her "bellyful of anger" to great effect, highlighting the ethnic health inequalities exposed by sickle cell disease right through to Covid-19. More than anything, her great sense of empathy and fun shine out from the page. I loved it. - DUA LIPA Dreams From My Mother is a beautiful memoir detailing an extraordinary life. Dame Elizabeth Anionwu is a an incredible role model for nurses - and for everyone. - CHRISTIE WATSON, author of The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story What a woman. What a book. - LEMN SISSAY OBE, author of My Name Is Why * * * It's 1947 and a sheltered Catholic girl is studying Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the first one in her family to go to university - and then she discovers that she's pregnant. The father is also a student at Cambridge, studying law. And he is black. Despite pressure to give up her baby for adoption, the young mother has big dreams for her child's future. Her daughter Elizabeth overcomes a background of shame, stigma, and discrimination, to become one of the UK's greatest ever nurses, and the first ever sickle cell nurse specialist. Recently named a BBC 100 Women of the Year 2020 and awarded a Damehood, Dame Elizabeth Anionwu has continued her work throughout her retirement, and recently brought to the nation's attention how Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on Black and Asian communities. Dreams From My Mother is an inspiring story about childhood, race, identity, family, friendship, hope and what makes us who we are. Ultimately, it is an incredibly moving story of a mother and a daughter separated by society, but united in the dreams they shared for her future. Previously published as Mixed Blessings From A Cambridge Union, this is a revised and updated edition * * * This is a powerful and compelling story of dual heritage, how an Irish girl became a Nigerian woman, and how discovering a true and total sense of identity brought acceptance, peace and joy. This story will inspire many people who have Irish and African (and other) roots and should be read by all who are interested in the history and culture of those lands. It is a unique and deeply personal account of the triumph of character, spirit and endeavour in the face of much adversity and considerable bigotry, beautifully written with a complete absence of bitterness. I felt in equal measure humbled and privileged to read it. I never cry but the concluding reflection on the mother and daughter relationship made me cry unashamedly. - PATRICK GAUL, Chair, Liverpool Irish Centre
Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in English
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004502246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004502246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
The Legacies of Zik
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Demise of Zik
Author: Raphael Nwachukwu Arinze
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Zik
Author: Henry O. Onukwuba
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Azikiwe and the African Revolution
Author: Michael S. O. Olisa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
African Anthropologies
Author: Mwenda Ntarangwi
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842777633
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842777633
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher Description
Daily Graphic
Author: Elvis D. Aryeh
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Speculative Markets
Author: Kristin Peterson
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376474
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
In this unprecedented account of the dynamics of Nigeria's pharmaceutical markets, Kristin Peterson connects multinational drug company policies, oil concerns, Nigerian political and economic transitions, the circulation of pharmaceuticals in the Global South, Wall Street machinations, and the needs and aspirations of individual Nigerians. Studying the pharmaceutical market in Lagos, Nigeria, she places local market social norms and credit and pricing practices in the broader context of regional, transnational, and global financial capital. Peterson explains how a significant and formerly profitable African pharmaceutical market collapsed in the face of U.S. monetary policies and neoliberal economic reforms, and she illuminates the relation between that collapse and the American turn to speculative capital during the 1980s. In the process, she reveals the mutual constitution of financial speculation in the drug industry and the structural adjustment plans that the IMF imposed on African nations. Her book is a sobering ethnographic analysis of the effects of speculation and "development" as they reverberate across markets and continents, and play out in everyday interpersonal transactions of the Lagos pharmaceutical market.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376474
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
In this unprecedented account of the dynamics of Nigeria's pharmaceutical markets, Kristin Peterson connects multinational drug company policies, oil concerns, Nigerian political and economic transitions, the circulation of pharmaceuticals in the Global South, Wall Street machinations, and the needs and aspirations of individual Nigerians. Studying the pharmaceutical market in Lagos, Nigeria, she places local market social norms and credit and pricing practices in the broader context of regional, transnational, and global financial capital. Peterson explains how a significant and formerly profitable African pharmaceutical market collapsed in the face of U.S. monetary policies and neoliberal economic reforms, and she illuminates the relation between that collapse and the American turn to speculative capital during the 1980s. In the process, she reveals the mutual constitution of financial speculation in the drug industry and the structural adjustment plans that the IMF imposed on African nations. Her book is a sobering ethnographic analysis of the effects of speculation and "development" as they reverberate across markets and continents, and play out in everyday interpersonal transactions of the Lagos pharmaceutical market.