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Unlike the Western binary construct of male/men and female/women, such distinctions did not exist in Yorùbá societies. [7] Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, in "The Invention of Women: Making African Sense of Western Gender Discourse," [ 8 ] delves into pre-colonial Yorùbá practices and explores the erasure's modern implications.
Acts 7 is the seventh chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the address of Stephen before the Sanhedrin and his execution outside [ 1 ] Jerusalem , and introduces Saul (who later became Paul the Apostle ).
Adaobi Tricia Obinne Nwaubani // ⓘ (born 1976) is a Nigerian novelist, humorist, essayist and journalist. [1] Her debut novel, I Do Not Come To You By Chance, [2] won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Africa), [3] [4] a Betty Trask First Book award, [5] and was named by The Washington Post as one of the Best Books of 2009. [6]
Nigerian Books of Record (NBR) is a reference / Official Book of Record of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for documenting good records held by Nigerians. It is a collection of human achievements categorized into education, literature, agriculture, medical science, business, sports, nature, adventure, radio and cinema etc. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
In South Africa and Nigeria, polygamy is a common practice [7] [8] and the novel, written by an author familiar with this system of multiple wives, [9] deals with the cultural pressures on the infertile and impotent within a polygamous society, [10] as well as with the universal themes of rape, domestic abuse marital property rights, girls ...
Days after The New York Times named Americanah to its best books of 2013 list, Beyoncé also signaled her admiration of Adichie, sampling Adichie's TED Talk "We should all be feminists" on the song "***Flawless"; sales of Americanah soared and as of December 23, 2013, the book climbed to the number 179 spot on Amazon.com's list of its 10,000 ...
Freshwater was a New York Times Notable Book, [12] was named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker [13] and NPR. [14] Emezi is also recognized as a 2018 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree. [15] In 2019, Freshwater was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction — the first time a non-binary transgender author has been nominated ...
[19] such as the book Modern Mathematics Handbook for Teachers published in 1974. [20] She taught at the University of Lagos from 1965 to 1985, and spent a decade directing the institute of education, which introduced innovative non-degree programmes, with many of the certificate recipients older women working as elementary school teachers. [ 6 ]