Tag: politics
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Hey bookworms! There are some books that reveal too much about ourselves or the societies we grew up in. These three books are a few of the most valuable books on my shelf, but I can only pick them up when I’m ready for confrontation. These are books that defy binge-read culture. They’re not “single-sitting…
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini unveils a world so overlooked in this age of western hegomony. Walking past a woman in a burqa, for me was once a glimpse of two anonymous eyes. Now I see a life and wonder many things of it. I’ve been transported to a world where a woman’s…
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Synopsis Between Zimbabwe’s civil war and eventual state of independence, lives a man named Golide Gumede. Golide dreams of building an aeroplane so he can take his wife to Tennessee where she can realize her dream of being a country singer like Dolly Parton. To achieve this dream means standing apart from the world. A…