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Préférence Nationale

By Fatou Diome

A Senegalese woman has troubled finding work in France after a divorce from her French husband.

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In Africa Tags: race and ethnicity, discrimination, respect for autonomy

My Parents’ Bedroom

By Uwem Akpan

The nine-year old Monique tells the story of the fate of her mixed Hutu-Tutsi family during the Rwandan genocide. 

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In Africa Tags: genocide, mixed marriage, war, reli, cruelty, child-rearing

How to Write about Africa

By Binyavanga Wainaina

Binyavanga Wainaina gives a humorous account of everything that is wrong with reporting about Africa.

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In Africa Tags: poverty, dignity, stereotyping, irony

Dead Men's Path

By Chinua Achebe

A new headmaster wants to bring innovation to the school but meets with resistance from the villagers.

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In Africa Tags: tradition, sanctity, culture

The Arrangers of Marriage

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Nigerian woman enters into an arranged marriage with a Nigerian man and leaves Nigeria to live with her new husband who is interning to be a medical doctor in New York.

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In Africa Tags: arranged marriage, forced marriage, child marriage, migration, culture, truth, relationships, feminism

A Party for the Colonel

By F T Kola

An insurance company throws a party during the apartheid years in South Africa in honour of the Colonel, an Indian salesman with an impressive record. Apartheid enters into every dimension of the lives of himself and his family.

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In Africa Tags: race, respect for autonomy, discrimination, segregation, uncle tomism

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  • Irony 1
  • Love 1
  • Manic-Depression 1
  • abortion 1
  • arranged marriage 1
  • authority 1
  • bullying 1
  • child marriage 1
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  • compassion 1
  • conscience 1
  • corruption 1
  • courage 1
  • cruelty 11
  • culture 4
  • dignity 4
  • discrimination 6
  • domestic abuse 1
  • empathy 4
  • exploitation 2
  • false consciousness 1
  • family 1
  • feminism 7
  • forced marriage 1
  • gender 2
  • genocide 1
  • happiness 1
  • health 1
  • holocaust 1
  • incarceration 1
  • insanity 1
  • irony 2
  • love 1
  • luck 3
  • manipulation 1
  • meaning of life 2
  • medical ethics 1
  • migration 1
  • mixed marriage 1
  • morality 1
  • murder of tyrants 1
  • neurochemistry 1
  • paternalism 1
  • perspective 1
  • photojournalism 1
  • poverty 4
  • prostitution 3
  • public health 3
  • race 3

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