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Newly emerging African democracies have let down the people of Africa, and have brought about untold misery and suffering. Most of Africa's social, economic, and security challenges have arisen due to the failure of political leaders to instill sanity and discipline in the government machinery. In fact, many join politics with the sole aim of accumulating riches in the shortest space of time. In the detective novel Crime and Corruption, a police inspector probes the deaths of a prominent businessman, his son, and some residents of Ndirande Township in the city Blantyre. What he finds leads to a cover-up by those he never would have suspected.
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The Spring 2023 issue of the New Croton Review contains 80 works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and photography; from 54 people from all over the US. It's an outstanding collection of creative work, so check it out today!
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Covering the story of preaching from the Protestant Reformation to the end of the 17th century, the latest volume in this series covers not only what the Reformers preached but also the reform of preaching itself.
American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.
Arguing for the importance of wit beyond its use as a literary device, Roger D. Lund outlines the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century England struggled to define an appropriate role for wit in the public sphere. He traces its unpredictable effects in works of philosophy, religious pamphlets, and legal writing and examines what happens when literary wit is deliberately used to undermine the judgment of individuals and to destabilize established institutions of church and state. Beginning with a discussion of wit's association with deception, Lund suggests that suspicion of wit and the imagination emerges in attacks on the Restoration stage, in the persecution of The...
Essays by 30 authors attempt to reclaim and to create heightened awareness about individuals, contributions, and struggles that have made African American women's survival and progress possible.
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