Moore’s memoir and Mbue’s novel celebrate and centre women as subjects of their own stories, capable of propelling and making history just like their male counterparts.
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In this searing, unapologetic treatise, Mona Eltahawy presents seven tools women and girls can use to “defy, disobey and disrupt the patriarchy,” and free themselves from the claws of gendered beliefs and expectations.
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Here, a list of five fiction and non-fiction books to illuminate your mind, tickle your curiosity and expand your understanding of the world.
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Women lead the way in this historical novel set in eighteenth century Jamaica, which follows Lilith—the youngest and newest addition to the group of rebellion-plotting enslaved women who meet under the cover of darkness—as she strives to reach beyond the boundaries of the brutish life reserved for slaves on the sugar plantation of Montpelier.
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Noor Naga’s debut novel explores the tensions around identity and othering through the eyes a destitute Egyptian man living in Cairo and a middle-class Egyptian-American “returning” to Egypt, a country she’s visiting for the very first time.
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Here, a list of five fiction and non-fiction books to illuminate your mind, tickle your curiosity and expand your understanding of the world.
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Whitefly follows Detective Laafrit’s investigation into the deaths of four young men found floating in the Mediterranean. The dead are irregular Moroccan migrants en route to neighbouring Spain, or at least that’s what Laafrit thinks until he discovers one of them was shot four times at close range.
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“Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko,” which means “Thanks be to God, the black Moses is born on the earth of our ancestors” in Lingala, is a mouthful for most. Instead, everyone—excluding the priest who christened the titular protagonist and orphan—settles for “Moses” after the biblical character who frees the Israelites, from slavery. To this end, Moses spends his teenage years examining the meaning of his name and how it guides his destiny, if at all.
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Trevor Noah’s memoir Born a Crime is a funny and insightful account of growing up in pre and post-Apartheid South Africa as a biracial boy and doubles as a paean to his mother, Patricia, whose significant presence in the book marks her undeniable influence over the comedian’s life.
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