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Random Walk: Modern African Stories presents a dynamic collection of six tales of adult fiction. The stories are independent and are set in different African towns and cities. Cape Town, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, and Luanda offer the perfect setting for the book's unfolding drama and action. Most stories written about Africa focus on war and poverty, while forgetting that Africa is a diverse continent with growing cities and a growing middle class. Africa's massive and expanding population is not homogenous, and the book brings out the diversity by exploring complex themes and ideas.

Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the arts, parenting, and resistance, and they have served as a transformative and important foundation for theorists and activists in considering questions of power and social justice.

Patriarchy is an altar to archaic prejudice and women are the sacrificial lambs.

Your Body Is War contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. Bold and raw, Mahtem Shiferraw's poems explore what the woman's body has to do to survive and persevere in the world, especially in the aftermath of abuse. A groundbreaking collection, the poems in Your Body Is War embody elements of conflict, making them simultaneously a place of destruction and of freedom.

"This book discovers everyday forms of conviviality in fiction and life writing from Eastern and Southern Africa. It focuses on ordinary moments of recognition, of hospitality, of humour and kindness in everyday life to illuminate the significance of repertoires of repair in a world broken by relations of power. Through close readings of specific capacities of living with difference, the book excavates ideas of world-making, personhood, and the possibilities of alternative social imaginaries from African perspectives...

"The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging from this space, and because increasing numbers of Africans use the internet as part of their day-to-day engagement with their societies and the world, Shola Adenekan explores this transformative development in Nigeria and Kenya, both significant countries in African literature and two of the continent's largest digital technology hubs...

"Leila has been in search of a wealthy husband for over a decade. Nadia moves to Dubai to support her husband's career, only to have her sacrifices thrown in her face. Sugar escapes the UK in an attempt to escape her past...

Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you prize-winning fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry, and photography from around the world.

"Explores the cultural valence of Afrofuturism. It examines works by a wide range of authors, including Phyllis Wheatley, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, and N.K. Jemisin"--

This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures, and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space.

This book brings insight and scholarly breadth through literary criticism to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa.

The dwarves have gone to battle and they have been victorious. But outside the realm, dark forces are working - a secret army of Orcs, made immortal by the hidden powers of the Black Water, now marches towards Girdlegard, set to unleash its fury upon the kingdom. Tungdil and the dwarves' victory over the Nod'onn is interrupted by an invading army of Orcs that has been reinforced by near-supernatural powers, a situation that is further compounded by the dark lord Tion's plotting descendants.

Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she's made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of "situationships", players, and heartbreak. But when the Queen of the Unbothered kisses Malakai Korede, the guy she just publicly denounced as "The Wastemen of Whitewell," in front of every Blackwellian on campus, she finds her show on the brink...

"Posy Montague is approaching her 70th birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonising decision. The house is crumbling around her, and Posy knows the time has come to sell it. Then a face appears from the past - Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken 50 years ago. Already struggling to cope with her son Sam's inept business dealings, and the sudden reappearance of her younger son Nick, Posy is reluctant to trust in Freddie's renewed affection. And unbeknown to Posy, Freddie - and Admiral House - have a devastating secret to reveal..."--Publisher.

Ever wondered what it's REALLY like to be a Premier League footballer? My name is James Milner and I'm not a Ribena-holic. Let me share insights into what it's like being a professional footballer, across my different experiences with Leeds United, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Manchester City and now Liverpool (not forgetting a six-match loan spell at Swindon). Plus my highs - and a few too many lows - playing for England. There isn't a current player who's been playing Premier League football as long as I have, and that gives me a pretty rare perspective into how the top-flight game has changed over the past seventeen years. In this book, I explain how a footballer's working week unfolds - what we eat and how we prepare for matches technically, tactically, mentally and physically - and talk you through the ups and downs of a matchday. I reveal my penalty-taking techniques, half-time team talks and the differences between playing against Lionel Messi, Wilfried Zaha, and Jimmy Bullard. I've played for managers ranging from Terry Venables, Peter Reid, and Sir Bobby Robson to Martin O'Neill, Fabio Capello and Jurgen Klopp. I tell you what it's like sharing a training ground and a dressing-room with team-mates such as Lee Bowyer, Mario Balotelli and Mo Salah. I also reveal the behind-the-scenes work that went into Liverpool's Champions League success - and the celebrations that followed. So this isn't an autobiography. The whole point of Ask A Footballer is that you, the fans, asked me questions and I have used my own experiences to answer them. I hope you like it and don't find it too boring.