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A Matter of Identity

By: Ben Igwe

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Jamike Nnorom, an only male child of his family, was educated in the United States of America. He returned to his village in Africa on what he hoped would be a brief visit to see his widowed mother after years of absence, with the hope of coming back to America. Under circumstances he least expected, he could not return, but instead started a family. A male child with an unusual body mark is born to the couple and the oracle offered divination on behalf of the offspring. A Matter of Identity is a sequel to Ben Igwe's Award winning debut novel, Against the Odds. With interest in human and national relationships, cultural growth, and assimilation, he adroitly weaves history and cultural ethos, particularly the philosophical tenets of reincarnation in Igbo traditional society, into this novel. The author's synergistic plot arrangement, and the capsular density of its thematic construct, with myriad settings strewn together by their subject affinity, and rendered with spellbound imagery and folksy narrative, compel the reader to unconsciously surrender to an enchanting rhythmic prose. A Matter of Identity is anthropological in scope and reach; foreshadowing with nostalgic relish, yet projecting a new horizon of mutual reintegration symbolized in Ahamefule to underscore and affirm the inextricable nexus in the afro-diasporic continuum.

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African Books Collective

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1940729246

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9781940729244

Journeyman

One Man's Odyssey Through the Lower Leagues of English Football

By: Ben Smith

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Journeyman

One Man's Odyssey Through the Lower Leagues of English Football

By: Ben Smith

BEN SMITH: PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLER. Recognise the name? Of course you don't. That's because most of Smith's years in the game were spent outside the vaunted, big-money environs of the Premier League - and this sporting memoir is all the more entertaining as a result. 1995: an adolescent Ben arrives at the training ground of one of England's biggest clubs to begin his journey and realise his dream of playing top-flight professional football. Aged just sixteen, he shares pre-season sessions at Arsenal with the likes of Dennis Bergkamp and Ian Wright. Surely this is the start of a stellar career? Instead, the next seventeen years saw the bright young star descend the ranks from Highbury to obscurity. With seasons playing for the likes of Reading, Yeovil, Southend, Hereford, Shrewsbury and Weymouth - and a career including three promotions, one relegation and some very memorable FA Cup games - Ben's story is one of a quintessential journeyman footballer. Candidly describing the negotiations, insecurities, injuries, relocations, personal implications and wet Saturday afternoons playing in front of 500 people, Journeyman offers a unique insight into the unvarnished life of a lower-league player - so far removed from the stories of pampered Premiership stars - as well as documenting the many teammates, opponents, managers and coaches who left an indelible mark on Ben's eclectic career. Refreshingly unsentimental and often hilarious, Smith's story is essential reading for all true fans of the not-always-so-beautiful game.

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Biteback Publishing

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1849549265

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9781849549264

Perspectives on Aro History & Civilization: The Splendour of a Great Past: Vol. 2

By: Mazi Azubike Okoro,Mazi Ben Ezumah

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Perspectives on Aro History & Civilization: The Splendour of a Great Past: Vol. 2

By: Mazi Azubike Okoro,Mazi Ben Ezumah

The African experience is a compelling theme that will continue to inspire great books of this nature. From Mali, Kanem-Bornu, Sokoto, Benin, Opobo to Arochukwu the stories are the same, of empires and kingdoms systematically broken up and destroyed by the West and ultimately rendered puerile and irrelevant. For centuries, Africa was mindlessly plundered and impoverished by the West. It is a historical fact that while the slaves from Africa were used to power the industrial revolution in Europe and the high yields in the plantations of the Americas, African societies remained neglected and plundered so much so that up to the present time they still manifest all the vagaries of underdevelopment. Aro kingdom had attained great height prior to the monumental destruction, trauma and dislocation occasioned by the British expedition of 1902 and several other problems arising from slavery and colonialism.

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Lulu.com

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1483438511

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9781483438511

Perspectives On Aro History & Civilization: The Splendour of a Great Past

By: Mazi Azubike Okoro,Mazi Ben Ezumah

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Perspectives On Aro History & Civilization: The Splendour of a Great Past

By: Mazi Azubike Okoro,Mazi Ben Ezumah

The richest, largest and most authentic repository on Arochukwu history, culture and civilization; written by Aro, devoid of misinterpretations by outsiders and pseudo-historians. This incisive book series presents Aro history as it is, not as perceived by outsiders. Indeed, Aro now has its own history, told by her people.

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239

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Lulu.com

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1483412962

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9781483412962

Unpackaging Theory & Practice in Educational Sciences

By: Faical Ben Khalifa, Oya AĞLARCI ÖZDEMİR, Fatma KİMSESİZ, M. Yavuz KONCA, Aylin MENTİŞ KÖKSOY ,Katarzyna MİLEK, Savaş BAŞTÜRK, Monireh Azımzadeh YİĞİT ,Emrah DOLGUNSÖZ, Ayber ACAR, Marielle RISSE

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Unpackaging Theory & Practice in Educational Sciences

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Livre de Lyon

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2382365633

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9782382365632

The Historiography of Genocide

By: Anton Weiss-Wendt,Robert Krieken,Alfred A. Cave,Ben Kiernan,Doris Bergen,David Moshman,Victoria Sanford,John Docker,Robert Hitchcock

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The Historiography of Genocide

By: Anton Weiss-Wendt,Robert Krieken,Alfred A. Cave,Ben Kiernan,Doris Bergen,David Moshman,Victoria Sanford,John Docker,Robert Hitchcock

The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides.

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654

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Springer

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0230297781

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9780230297784

Economic Policy and Financial Performance

By: Umesh Kumar, Joseph Macheru,Adeyemo Oyindamola Olajumoke (Ph.D), Dr. Ben Kajwang, Adewale Segun Amos

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Economic Policy and Financial Performance

By: Umesh Kumar, Joseph Macheru,Adeyemo Oyindamola Olajumoke (Ph.D), Dr. Ben Kajwang, Adewale Segun Amos

TOPICS IN THE BOOK Macroeconomic Signals and Indian Real Estate Firms The Nexus between Capital Flight and Economic Growth: A Panel Data Investigation of the Mediating Role of Inflation (Kenya: 1986-2021) Impact of Refined Crude Oil Imports on Carbon Dioxide Emission (C02) in Nigeria Contribution of Reinsurance Business to the Economy Effect of Budget Finance on Economic Growth in Nigeria

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Cari Journals USA LLC

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9914746322

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9789914746327

Art Without Borders

A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity

By: Ben-Ami Scharfstein

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Art Without Borders

A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity

By: Ben-Ami Scharfstein

People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other? Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, African, and Australianartists, Art Without Borders probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continuing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein examines the mutual influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, conjoining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one culture to appreciate the art of another. Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226736113

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9780226736112

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