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Toufah

The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement

By: Toufah Jallow,Kim Pittaway

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Toufah

The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement

By: Toufah Jallow,Kim Pittaway

Riveting . . . harrowing and propulsive." —The New York Times Book Review *One of The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2021 (Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly)* "This powerful story shouldn’t be missed." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "With subject matter like this, you’d expect the book to be worthy, important, but hard-going. You’d be two-thirds right. The same qualities that prompted Toufah to break the barriers she did have allowed her to leaven the tale with humour, and a lot more of the good she encountered along the way than the bad that set her on her path." --The Toronto Star An incandescent and inspiring memoir of resilience from a courageous young woman whose powerful advocacy brings to mind the presence, resolve, and moral authority of Malala and Greta Thunberg Before launching an unprecedented protest movement, Fatou "Toufah" Jallow was just a 19-year-old dreaming of a scholarship. Encouraged by her mother to pursue her own ambitions, Toufah entered a presidential competition purportedly designed to identify the country's smart young women and support their educational and career goals. Toufah won. Yahya Jammeh, the dictator who had ruled The Gambia all of Toufah's life, styled himself as a pious yet progressive protector of women. At first he behaved in a fatherly fashion toward Toufah, but then proposed marriage, and she turned him down. On a pretext, his female cousin then lured Toufah to the palace, where he drugged and raped her. Toufah could not tell anyone. There was literally no word for rape in her native language. If she told her parents, they would take action, and incur Jammeh's wrath. Wearing a niqab to hide her identity, she gave Jammeh’s security operatives the slip and fled to Senegal. Her eventual route to safety in Canada is full of close calls and intrigue. 18 months after Jammeh was deposed, Toufah Jallow became the first woman in The Gambia to make a public accusation of rape against him, sparking marches of support and a social media outpouring of shared stories among West African women under #IAmToufah. Each brave and bold decision she made set Toufah on the path to reclaim the personal growth and education that Jammeh had tried to steal from her, a future also of leadership and advocacy for survivors of sexual violence, especially in heavily patriarchal countries lacking resources and laws to protect women and even the language with which to speak openly about sexual threats and violence. “This terrific book had me on the edge of my seat, and sends an inspiring message to all women about the power of their voice.” --Anna Maria Tremonti “My (s)heroes do not wear capes... they call out injustices with enough grace and forgiveness to heal anyone that hears their story. Toufah is that graceful shero the world desperately needs.” --Celina Caesar-Chavannes “Toufah's story is horrifying and infuriating, but ultimately also hopeful and inspiring because of what she was able to achieve out of such darkness. To anyone who cares about addressing gender-based violence, this is essential reading.” --Robyn Doolittle

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Steerforth Press / Truth to Power

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1586423002

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9781586423001

Reader's Choice

Essays and Stories

By: Kim Flachmann,Michael Flachmann,Alexandra MacLennan

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Reader's Choice

Essays and Stories

By: Kim Flachmann,Michael Flachmann,Alexandra MacLennan

Designed for Developmental Writing courses (Essay level). An appealing alternative to the popular Reader's Choice, now in its third Canadian edition, Reader's Choice: Essays and Stories adds fiction to provide a broader range of models of writing. The book's primary purpose continues to be helping students improve their ability to think, read, and write on progressively more sophisticated levels.

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580

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Prentice Hall

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0130418749

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9780130418746

Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice

Paradoxes in Play, Second Edition

By: Suna Løwe Nielsen,Kim Klyver,Majbritt Rostgaard Evald,Torben Bager

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Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice

Paradoxes in Play, Second Edition

By: Suna Løwe Nielsen,Kim Klyver,Majbritt Rostgaard Evald,Torben Bager

Aimed primarily at undergraduate students, this highly successful textbook provides the reader with a broad overview of the entrepreneurship phenomenon. It focuses on the emergence, evaluation and organizing of entrepreneurial opportunities in various organizational contexts. This thoroughly revised second edition brings it up to date with the newest trends in the entrepreneurship field and includes four insightful new chapters.

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345

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1785364464

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9781785364464

Sentness

Six Postures of Missional Christians

By: Kim Hammond,Darren Cronshaw

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Sentness

Six Postures of Missional Christians

By: Kim Hammond,Darren Cronshaw

What is at the heart of the church's work in the world? It's not church-as-usual, that's for sure. In defiance of the temptations to make the church all about its members, Kim Hammond and Darren Cronshaw call us to embrace our "sentness," to follow Jesus into our world and call it to faith.

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212

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InterVarsity Press

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0830884068

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9780830884063

The Transition to Democracy in Hungary

Árpád Göncz and the Post-Communist Hungarian Presidency

By: Dae Soon Kim

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The Transition to Democracy in Hungary

Árpád Göncz and the Post-Communist Hungarian Presidency

By: Dae Soon Kim

Unlike in other countries of Eastern Europe where the opposition to communism came in the form of single mass movements led by charismatic leaders such as Václav Havel and Lech Wałęsa, in Hungary the opposition was very fragmented, brought together and made effective only by the authoritative, significant but relatively unknown Árpád Göncz, who subsequently became Hungary’s first post-communist president. This book charts the political career of Árpád Göncz, outlining the outstanding contribution he made to Hungary’s transition to democracy. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including archives and interviews with Göncz himself and others, it shows how Göncz, unlike Havel who was a playwright and whose political role was largely symbolic, was a campaigning politician all his life, consistently advocating social democratic, but not communist, values. Imprisoned from 1956 for his participation in the 1956 uprising, Göncz was a highly-effective political operator in the transition period around 1989, and as president wielded real power effectively. As politics in Hungary are again marred by deep division and fragmentation, Göncz’s success in bringing rival groups together is even more pronounced.

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Routledge

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113504550X

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Toufah

The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement

By: Toufah Jallow,Kim Pittaway

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The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement

By: Toufah Jallow,Kim Pittaway

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Creative Writing

Drafting, Revising and Editing

By: Graeme Harper,Jeri Kroll

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Creative Writing

Drafting, Revising and Editing

By: Graeme Harper,Jeri Kroll

This stimulating edited collection focuses on the practice of revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to the modes and methods of drafting, revising and editing. Offering an overview of how creative writing is generated and improved, the chapters address questions of how creative writers revise, why editing is such a crucial part of the creative process and how understanding the theories underpinning revision can enhance writers' projects. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of creative writing, along with all creative writers looking to hone and polish their craft.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137609575

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9781137609571

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