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Economic, Energy, Agricultural, Trade: Global Diaspora Forum
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
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Economic , Energy, Agricultural and Trade Issues: 2013 Global Diaspora Forum 2013 Global Diaspora Forum Remarks Robert D. Hormats Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keynote Address Washington, DC Thank you, Thomas [
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Teju Cole on the "Empathy Gap" and Tweeting Drone Strikes
Calabar :: Nigeria | 3 months ago
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Thus begins a series of tweets from the writer Teju Cole, each one a famous novel's opening line rudely interrupted by drones...Discursive, allusive, and always thought-provoking, @tejucole stands out in a Twitterverse crowded by hashtags and throw-
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All the Happy Young Literary Women: Opening Up The American Reader
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | 6 months ago
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But Uzoamaka Maduka, the 25-year-old editor in chief, doesn't go in for the comparison...There's a way in which both the larger society and the literary world have collaborated in allowing the literary world to be very hermetic and recede from the
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Olympic Hopeful Works To Improve Bone Marrow Registries
Lagos :: Nigeria | 10 months ago
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When Seun Adebiyi , a Nigerian-American lawyer and aspiring Olympic athlete, was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia in 2009, he quickly found that it was not going to be easy to find treatment. As he explains it, "my only chance of survival" was
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Nigerian authors look West to gain their fame
Lagos :: Nigeria | over 1 year ago
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The chaos of Nigeria's largest city of Lagos gets boiled down to prose as a narrator notes "how unpretty" its sprawl looks, with "its unplanned houses sprouting like weeds." Another author describes the madness of the commute, how six roads meet and "
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Writers have a duty to speak out: Novelist Teju Cole
Lagos :: Nigeria | over 1 year ago
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Yet the 36-year-old author of 2011's critically-acclaimed, bestselling novel Open City seemed genuinely surprised at the enthusiastic reception he received at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Excerpts from an interview: Are you daunted by the success
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East Bay professor says he will stay in Nigeria as he fights election results and criminal charges
Makurdi :: Nigeria | almost 2 years ago
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Dublin resident Steve Ugbah, a marketing professor at Cal State East Bay, said this week his life may be in danger but he will not leave Nigeria until a tribunal resolves whether he won or lost the April 26 election for governor of the Benue state.
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