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		<title>On The Shelves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ese Edugyan’s second novel Half-Blood Blues, won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the $50,000 that accompanies it.  The Award was presented at a gala ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto on November 8th.]]></description>
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		<title>New On The Shelves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 08:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“He Served His Fellow Man: the Life and Work of Andrew Thomas Carr” by Joslynne Carr-Sealey. Published by Lexicon Trinidad Ltd., Available at A Different Booklist, 746 Bathurst St., Toronto.]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Woman Pickney</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 01:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yvonne Shorter Brown’s Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica is not just an ordinary autobiography of a young rural ‘brown’ Jamaican girl who unendingly mourns the loss of her biological mother, the absence of whom opened her to physical, emotional and psychological abuse]]></description>
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		<title>Combating Poverty New Battle Gear for an Ancient War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since antiquity the problem of poverty has engaged the consciences of statesmen and thinkers, but few have dared to draw the obvious context – and fuel – for it: inequality. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Aid why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Afro News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dead Aid”, author Dambisa Moyo notes that the export trade income to Zambia plummeted as the price of sugar dropped from 65 cents per pound to a low of just under 7 cents per pound in 1978.]]></description>
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		<title>Girlfriends, Cliques and Politics:Lesley Lokko’s Sundowners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djami Diallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sense of intrigue and adventure, the high political stakes, romantic connections and backstabbing, the desire we have to know where life will take the four girls, and the tour we take around the world all the while, provide all the elements we would want to see displayed in a novel.]]></description>
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		<title>Markings on the Ceiling; Mirror on the Wall:Dayo Forster’s Reading the Ceiling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djami Diallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eighteen year old Ayodele has her own ideas for each of them and while she does not know what decision she will ultimately make, she is intoxicated with the range of possibilities, with the sense of excitement and independence that comes with finally turning eighteen. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Puzzle of Humanity</title>
		<link>http://www.theafronews.ca/2010/01/04/1892/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djami Diallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is essentially the same question we ask ourselves as the clock strikes midnight to announce a new year. What do we wish for? Each year we make resolutions to get fit, be better friends, have more fun, work harder, get better job satisfaction, make more time for the things and the people we love.]]></description>
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		<title>“Hold Your Breath and Shine a Light:”  Bebe Moore Campbell’s 72 Hour Hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djami Diallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keri Whitmore’s daughter Trina is perfect by her mother’s own admission: her beauty is striking and her standing as a straight-A student would make her the envy of any parent. Keri, who tells Trina’s story is taken with her daughter’s beauty and surprised by the fact that it could not suffice to ease Trina’s way in the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Reforming Leadership Across Africa Author: J. William Addai</title>
		<link>http://www.theafronews.ca/2009/11/02/1636/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kofi Akosah-Sarpong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly, leadership has emerged as a key factor in Africa’s progress. Bewildered leadership schemes have seen a good part of post-independent Africa sinking, some leading to horrible civil wars and state paralysis.]]></description>
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