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4 weeks ago |
lrb.co.uk | Gazelle Mba
The church had a pastor who really loved the sound of his own voice and he spoke for nearly two hours. His sermon, one day last December in South-East Nigeria, concerned the proper behaviour of men and women in marriage, though his remarks were directed more at women: the wicked, disobedient women whose refusal to submit to their husbands as God intended is to blame for most if not all domestic conflict and social ills. On this occasion the pastor was unusually concerned with the marital bed.
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1 month ago |
lrb.co.uk | Gazelle Mba
William Ansah Sessarakoo’s father, John Corrantee of Annamaboe, on the Gold Coast, was a member of the Fante ruling family and a prominent merchant, well known in the interior and among European slave traders. In order to strengthen ties with his European business partners, and to give his heirs an advantage over their countrymen, Corrantee sent one of his sons to be educated in France and another – Sessarakoo – in England. Sessarakoo was about eleven when he left Africa in 1747.
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2 months ago |
lrb.co.uk | Gazelle Mba
A few years ago I worked for an organisation that collected donations for large humanitarian agencies such as Médecins Sans Frontières, Amnesty International and Save the Children. My job was to approach passers-by – students milling around campus, office workers heading to lunch – and encourage them to contribute to these causes. Most conversations followed a predictable pattern: a polite decline or a brief acknowledgment of the importance of the work. One exchange stood out though.
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2 months ago |
worldofinteriors.com | Gazelle Mba
When bell hooks died in 2021 my social-media timeline was awash with pictures of the author, single braids softly framing her face, that contradictory gaze at once tender and serious, playful and frank. Otherwise she is shown in her youth, right hand cupping her cheek, afro coiffed and flowers embroidered around the neckline of her smock. We didn’t know her, but we knew her.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
dialnet.unirioja.es | Gazelle Mba
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