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Black Widow White Widow

Author : De Wet Potgieter
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143531379
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Black Widow White Widow written by De Wet Potgieter and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When in 2013 he first published a report on the active presence of Al-Qaeda in South Africa, all hell broke loose for investigative reporter De Wet Potgieter. He was forced to retract before a second, substantiating article could be published. Then the massacre at Westgate Mall hit Nairobi, which made the involvement of the so-called White Widow - operating on a legitimate but illegally acquired South African passport - front-page news. Suddenly the world's media was beating a path to Potgieter's door. Now, for the first time, he tells the full unsettling story of Al-Qaeda's presence in this country. Not only is the veil lifted from this mysterious British woman, but the identity of another is disclosed: an Afrikaans-speaking counter-terrorist operative known as the Black Widow.The book shows how, taking advantage of corrupt state machinery, Al-Qaeda factions launch attacks in other countries. It discloses the location of a terrorist training camp in the Karoo and reveals disturbing details of the support they receive from various local extremist groups. Based on investigations spanning two years, Black Widow White Widow paints a frightening picture of the all too real possibility of future attacks from, or on, South African soil.

Praisesong for the Widow

Author : Paule Marshall
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452267110
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Praisesong for the Widow written by Paule Marshall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1984-04-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Daughters and Brown Girl, Brownstones comes a “work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and generosity, one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any considerations of race or sex”(Washington Post Book World). Avey Johnson—a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls—has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood. Then on a cruise to the Caribbean with two friends, inspired by a troubling dream, she senses her life beginning to unravel—and in a panic packs her bag in the middle of the night and abandons her friends at the next port of call. The unexpected and beautiful adventure that follows provides Avey with the links to the culture and history she has so long disavowed. “Astonishingly moving.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review

Black Widow

Author : Leslie Gray Streeter
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316490725
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Black Widow written by Leslie Gray Streeter and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her signature warmth, hilarity, and tendency to overshare, Leslie Gray Streeter gives us real talk about love, loss, grief, and healing in your own way that "will make you laugh and cry, sometimes on the same page" (James Patterson). Leslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She's not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she'd wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott's funeral; he loved her in that dress! But, here she is, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack, totally unsure of how to navigate her new widow lifestyle. ("New widow lifestyle." Sounds like something you'd find products for on daytime TV, like comfy track suits and compression socks. Wait, is a widow even allowed to make jokes?) Looking at widowhood through the prism of race, mixed marriage, and aging, Black Widow redefines the stages of grief, from coffin shopping to day-drinking, to being a grown-ass woman crying for your mommy, to breaking up and making up with God, to facing the fact that life goes on even after the death of the person you were supposed to live it with. While she stumbles toward an uncertain future as a single mother raising a baby with her own widowed mother (plot twist!), Leslie looks back on her love story with Scott, recounting their journey through racism, religious differences, and persistent confusion about what kugel is. Will she find the strength to finish the most important thing that she and Scott started? Tender, true, and endearingly hilarious, Black Widow is a story about the power of love, and how the only guide book for recovery is the one you write yourself.

The African Widow; Being the History of Poor Black Woman, Etc. [By R. L. In Verse.]

Author : L. R.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The African Widow; Being the History of Poor Black Woman, Etc. [By R. L. In Verse.] written by L. R. and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Widowed, But Not Wounded

Author : Sabra Robinson
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781634927734
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Widowed, But Not Wounded written by Sabra Robinson and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory book celebrates the life and work of thirteen black widowed women who have chosen to document their resilience in life after a loss. Widowed, But Not Wounded is rich in love, laughter and grief yet also touching on several of the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance).

The Widow's Cross

Author : Umejesi, Ike
Publisher : Spears Media Press
ISBN 13 : 1942876130
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book The Widow's Cross written by Umejesi, Ike and published by Spears Media Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently widowed, Angelina Ibe, a smart, evangelical Christian and school teacher goes on an early morning evangelising mission and intentionally kills a python, one of the major totems in her community, Umuocha. This abominable act – at least viewed from the community’s perspective, brings her into direct collision with Umuocha’s guardians of tradition, led by the arch-conservative prime minister of Umuocha, Mazi Ikenga. Inevitably, the Igwe (King) of Umuocha, formerly a lawyer with a thriving practice in England, is embroiled in the drama. Whose side will he take and how far does Angelina’s battle go? Find out as you read this epic battle of wills that pits Angelina against time-honoured patriarchal institutions and individuals, determined to get their way by every means and at all cost.

Co-wives, Co-widows

Author : Adrienne Yabouza
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1912868857
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Co-wives, Co-widows written by Adrienne Yabouza and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'At 49, Lidou is in his prime, a prosperous builder of houses in the Central African Republic and the proud husband of two beautiful wives, Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou. The only cloud on his horizon is the recent onset of impotence, for which he persuades a pharmacist friend to get him some pills. The day after his first dose, Lidou has a heart attack and drops dead, which gives his opportunistic cousin Zouaboua the chance to accuse the two newly-widowed women of poisoning Lidou, so that he can snatch his cousin’s property out from under their noses. If they’re going to keep what’s rightfully theirs, Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou must fight with all their might against a backdrop of corruption in which bribery oils the wheels of society, eroding decency and loyalty. It’s a weighty topic in many ways, but Adrienne Yabouza writes so lightly and colourfully that this is a delight to read.' Alastair Mabbott in The Herald

The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies

Author : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030280987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies written by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.

Black Widow Society

Author : Angela Makholwa
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN 13 : 1770103139
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Black Widow Society written by Angela Makholwa and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994 when South Africans were finally seeing the light of freedom and independence, three well-respected businesswomen – Talullah Ntuli, Edna Whithead and Nkosazana Dlamini – formed the Black Widow Society, a secret organisation aimed at liberating women trapped in emotionally and physically abusive relationships by assisting in ‘eliminating’ their errant husbands. For fifteen years the Black Widow Society operated undetected, impeccably run by The Triumvirate with the help of their suave and mysterious hired gun, Mzwakhe Khuzwayo, a slick ex-convict meticulous in his responsibilities. But as the secret organisation recruits more members, the wheels of this well-oiled machine threaten to fall off. Will Talullah’s controlling streak or Nkosazana’s unfettered material aspirations jeopardise the future of the Black Widow Society? Or perhaps one of the new recruits, unsettled by the reality of the elimination of her former husband, will lose her nerve and expose the workings of the group after all this time? As the tension mounts, Black Widow Society builds to a chilling and bloody climax that will keep you guessing and riveted until the very last page.

Sacrifice

Author : Michelle Black
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593190947
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Sacrifice written by Michelle Black and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking and affecting memoir from a gold-star widow searching for the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death, this book bears witness to the true sacrifices made by military families. When Green Beret Bryan Black was killed in an ambush in Niger in 2017, his wife Michelle saw her worst nightmare become a reality. She was left alone with her grief and with two young sons to raise. But what followed Bryan's death was an even more difficult journey for the young widow. After receiving very few details about the attack that took her husband's life, it was up to Michelle to find answers. It became her mission to learn the truth about that day in Niger--and Sacrifice is the result of that mission. In this heartbreaking and revelatory memoir, Michelle uses exclusive interviews with the survivors of her husband's unit, research into the military leadership and accountability, and her own unique vantage point as a gold-star widow to tell a previously unknown story. Sacrifice is both an honest, emotional look inside a military marriage and a searing investigation of the people and decisions at the heart of the US military.

The Black Widow Spider

Author : Lisa Owings
Publisher : Bellwether Media
ISBN 13 : 1612117104
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Black Widow Spider written by Lisa Owings and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't say you weren't warned. Black widows have red markings that let you know they are dangerous. Bother a black widow and experience the effects of its potent poison. Get caught up in reading about the deadly black widow spider.

Claiming Union Widowhood

Author : Brandi Clay Brimmer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012838
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Claiming Union Widowhood written by Brandi Clay Brimmer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the grassroots pension network in New Bern, North Carolina, through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines how the mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers struggled to claim pensions in the face of evidentiary obstacles and personal scrutiny. Brimmer exposes and examines the numerous attempts by the federal government to exclude black women from receiving the federal pensions that they had been promised. Her analyses illustrate the complexities of social policy and law administration and the interconnectedness of race, gender, and class formation. Expanding on previous analyses of pension records, Brimmer offers an interpretive framework of emancipation and the freedom narrative that places black women at the forefront of demands for black citizenship.

Masterful Women

Author : Kirsten E. Wood
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863777
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Masterful Women written by Kirsten E. Wood and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But as many as one in ten slaveholders--sometimes more--was a widow, and as Kirsten E. Wood demonstrates, slaveholding widows between the American Revolution and the Civil War developed their own version of mastery. Because their husbands' wills and dower law often gave women authority over entire households, widowhood expanded both their domestic mandate and their public profile. They wielded direct power not only over slaves and children but also over white men--particularly sons, overseers, and debtors. After the Revolution, southern white men frequently regarded powerful widows as direct threats to their manhood and thus to the social order. By the antebellum decades, however, these women found support among male slaveholders who resisted the popular claim that all white men were by nature equal, regardless of wealth. Slaveholding widows enjoyed material, legal, and cultural resources to which most other southerners could only aspire. The ways in which they did--and did not--translate those resources into social, political, and economic power shed new light on the evolution of slaveholding society.

Black Widow

Author : Nikki Turner
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0345507649
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Black Widow written by Nikki Turner and published by One World. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Nikki Turner's Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife. #1 bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with an explosive new novel about a woman at an emotional crossroads–and the men left in her wake. Isis Tatum knows firsthand the way love can mess up a person. After all, she saw her mother drive a truck through the home of her father’s mistress before killing her dad. And ever since Isis was a teenager, her love life has been a series of disasters: Her first sweetheart was executed by the state of Virginia, and her next lover was sent to jail for murder. Now Isis is a successful jewelry designer, but she remains a failure with men. When she meets Logic, a Las Vegas high roller who treats her like a princess, Isis reckons she’s finally struck gold–literally. Logic sees to it that her custom pieces of jewelry are seen on the hottest rap stars and pro athletes. But when this Mr. Right ends up in jail too, Isis starts to believe that she’s cursed, that she’s a true Black Widow. Always one to roll with the punches, she embraces her life and walks bravely down all its twisted paths, taking her business to unprecedented heights while letting the men who dare to get involved with her take their chances. “Few writers working in the field today bring the drama quite as dramatically as Nikki Turner. . . . [She’ s] a master at weaving juicy, ’hood-rich sagas of revenge, regret, and redemption.” –Vibe.com “Turner [takes] street literature to the next level, further proving that she is indeed ‘The Queen of Hip-Hop Fiction.’ ” –UrbanPublicity.com

The Negro Motorist Green Book

Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negro Motorist Green Book written by Victor H. Green and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

His Woman, His Wife, His Widow

Author : Janice Jones
Publisher : Urban Books
ISBN 13 : 1599832895
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book His Woman, His Wife, His Widow written by Janice Jones and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman struggles between her commitment to God and her love for a drug dealer in this heart-wrenching journey through life, love, and death.

Not This Widow

Author : Dilys Sillah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912551910
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Not This Widow written by Dilys Sillah and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not This Widow is an intimate and poignant memoir about the sudden death of a much-loved husband and father. After unexpectedly becoming a widow, Dilys Sillah recounts her experience of transitioning from a devoted wife to a young widow thwarted with challenges she could never have imagined. Losing a loved one is gut-wrenching enough, yet this book explores the significant role that culture and tradition play in stifling the grieving process of new widows. Not This Widow, speaks of the unspoken challenges, pressures and traditions forced upon some widows. Complete with four stories from other women who share similar experiences, this book gives voice to many widows whose stories and experiences have gone undocumented and urges us to change the narrative. This book provides practical advice for anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one. It is a powerful story of resilience, steely determination and dignity, giving hope to anyone who has loved and lost too soon.