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Books by
Uche Nworah
The Long Harmattan Season
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Uche Nworah
ChickenBones Journalist of 2006
Uche
Nworah, Nigerian journalist, is probably one of the
hardest working and possibly most controversial writer
we have published. In honor of his work, his talent, and
his popularity, we salute him and thank him for the
contributions he has made to the popularity of
ChickenBones: A Journal in Nigeria and among
Nigerians at home and abroad.
Interview
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Uche’s passion is in motivating and inspiring people to achieve and
excel, as a life coach and public speaker, he preaches self -
enterprise as the key to people and economic empowerment drawing
from his experiences which includes running his own lottery
business at the age of 10.
Uche holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Arts (second class
honours upper division) from the University of Uyo -Nigeria and
also a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Marketing from the
University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. He also holds the BEEC
professional certificate and diploma in advertising, and the
Post-graduate Diploma in Marketing of the Chartered Institute of
Marketing, London.
In addition to a teaching qualification (Postgraduate Certificate in
Education) obtained from the University of Greenwich, London, he
is currently studying for a doctorate degree (EdD) in Education
at the same university.
Uche has extensive management and marketing experience having worked for
Leading Edge Consulting Ltd, Lagos as a management consultant
and also Sunrise D’Arcy, Lagos as Head of Events and Public
Relations. He also worked as an independent investment adviser
for African markets in Germany before leaving to pursue his life
long dream of teaching, first at Bexley College, London as a
business and marketing lecturer and currently at NewVic, London.
Uche speaks and writes German fluently, enjoys travelling,
football, movies, writing and meeting people.
He is the founder and project director of T.O.T.A.L PROJECTS, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that
promotes e - learning in Africa.
Uche Nworah's
The Long Harmattan Season
can be purchased from
amazon.com and from other leading book sellers.
For an autographed copy please send an email to
info@uchenworah.com.
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great
Migration
By Isabel Wilkerson
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a
sharecropper's wife, left Mississippi
for Milwaukee in 1937, after her cousin
was falsely accused of stealing a white
man's turkeys and was almost beaten to
death. In 1945, George Swanson Starling,
a citrus picker, fled Florida for Harlem
after learning of the grove owners'
plans to give him a "necktie party" (a
lynching). Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
made his trek from Louisiana to
California in 1953, embittered by "the
absurdity that he was doing surgery for
the United States Army and couldn't
operate in his own home town." Anchored
to these three stories is Pulitzer
Prize–winning journalist Wilkerson's
magnificent, extensively researched
study of the "great migration," the
exodus of six million black Southerners
out of the terror of Jim Crow to an
"uncertain existence" in the North and
Midwest. Wilkerson deftly incorporates
sociological and historical studies into
the novelistic narratives of Gladney,
Starling, and Pershing settling in new
lands, building anew, and often finding
that they have not left racism behind.
The drama, poignancy, and romance of a
classic immigrant saga pervade this
book, hold the reader in its grasp, and
resonate long after the reading is done.
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
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Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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