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The Secret Lives of the Four Wives: A Novel  (2011)

African-born poet Lola Shoneyin sheds a fascinating light on the little-known world of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria, in her powerful and thought-provoking debut novel, The Secret Lives of the Four Wives (previously titled The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives). Fans of The 19th Wife and HBO’s Big Love will be enthralled by this riveting tale of a prosperous African family thrown into turmoil when the patriarch adds a young, well-educated fourth wife into the mix who threatens to expose the other wives’ deepest, darkest secrets.

by Lola Shoneyin (Author)

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Lola Shoneyin’s work includes three books of poems, So All the Time I Was Sitting on an Egg (1997), Song of a Riverbird (2002), For the Love of Flight (2010), and two children’s books: Mayowa and the Masquerade and Iyaji, the Housegirl.

Her debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 and went on to win the PEN Oakland 2011 Josephine Miles Literary Award and the 2011 ANA/NDDC Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize. Her children’s book, Mayowa and the Masquerades won the 2011 ANA/ Atiku Abubakar Prize for Children’s literature.

Shoneyin is the founder of the Book Buzz Foundation, Nigeria. She is also the director of Ake Arts & Book Festival which takes place in the third week of November in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.

She lives in Lagos, Nigeria with four children, four dogs and one husband.

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Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds

Researchers have successfully grown dates from 2000-year-old seeds recovered from an ancient fortress and caves in the Middle East. The find reveals how ancient farmers were selectively breeding dates from around the region, and it could give clues to how dates can survive for millennia.

“This is an astonishing result,” says Robin Allaby, a geneticist at the University of Warwick who was not part of the research team. “It shines a light on the fact that we don’t understand long-term seed viability.”

To grow the date plants, Sarah Sallon, an ethnobotanist at the Hadassah Medical Center, and colleagues sorted through hundreds of seeds. Some were excavated from Masada, Israel—a mountaintop fortress on a plateau overlooking the Dead Sea that was partly built by the biblical King Herod; others came from caves around the Dead Sea used for storage and living quarters. Read more.

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Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy, editors.  Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019. #ADPhD #slaveryarchive “Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of the development of proslavery and antislavery thought and the use of slave labor; and (2) analysis on the ways in which the legacies of slavery in institutions of higher education continued in the post–Civil War era to the present day.” https://ift.tt/2UFsN0D Follow #ADPhD on IG: @afrxdiasporaphd

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12 principles of permaculture source http://bit.ly/2sdOZn1

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“The DNC doesn’t want you to know it, but Bernie won Iowa. And his campaign won by organizing immigrants, refugees, and people who work late shifts. His campaign did it by investing heavily in satellite caucuses and canvassing people in multiple languages to turn them out. His campaign did it by assigning organizers to post up outside of factory gates as workers got off shifts in the middle of the night, and by sending volunteers to their homes to confirm their participation. His campaign did it by organizing the working class.”

— Bernie Won Iowa

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“When I see Pete [Buttigieg] tense up and purse his lips, or take a hasty gulp of water when he feels pressured to explain some facet of his paint-by-numbers political career or his regressive, unpopular policies, it makes me want to barricade the street with burning tires and shut down a container port. If Pete is nervous, it means others like him are nervous. They fear that everything they have worked for in life—not in the proletarian sense, mind you, but in the sense of writing ingratiating letters and leveraging connections—is at risk. They’re afraid of the socialist movement. Good. It’s about time.”

— Class Carpetbagger

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RASPBERRY BROWNIE TORTE

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“Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a President from office.”

— Marco Rubio

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Professor Crenshaw

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Remember this woman. She is the woman that gave us a way to fight for inclusion in feminist spaces so that we are not forgotten.

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One correction. While she did create the TERM “intersectionality,” Black women theorists had been doing the work of intersectionality long before 1989. Anna Julia Cooper’s A Voice From the South (1892) is a good place to start. But there are even earlier examples in speeches, novels, and poetry.

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Elton John, Diana Ross and Cher at the Rock Music Awards, 1975