Citizen Akoy
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Citizen Akoy
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Author : Steve Marantz
language : en
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2019-02-01
Citizen Akoy written by Steve Marantz and has been published by University of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
2019 Foreword INDIES Award, Honorable Mention for Adventure, Sports & Rec Akoy Agau led Omaha Central High School to four straight high school basketball state championships (2010–13) and was a three‑time All‑State player. One of the most successful high school athletes in Nebraska’s history, he’s also a South Sudanese refugee. At age four, Akoy and his family fled Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War, and after three years in Cairo, they came to Maryland as refugees. They arrived in Omaha in 2003 in search of a better future. In Omaha the Agaus joined the largest South Sudanese resettlement population in the United States. While federal resources and local organizations help refugees with housing, health care, and job placement, the challenge to assimilate culturally was particularly steep. For Akoy basketball provided a sense of belonging and an avenue to realize his potential. He landed a Division 1 basketball scholarship to Louisville for a year and a half, then played at Georgetown for two injury‑plagued seasons before he graduated in the spring of 2017. With remaining eligibility, he played for Southern Methodist University while pursuing a graduate degree. In a fluid, intimate, and joyful narrative, Steve Marantz relates Akoy’s refugee journey of basketball, family, romance, social media, and coming of age at Nebraska’s oldest and most diverse high school. Set against a backdrop of the South Sudanese refugee community in Omaha, Marantz provides a compelling account of the power of sports to blend cultures in the unlikeliest of places.
Citizen Akoy
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Author : Steve Marantz
language : en
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2019-02-01
Citizen Akoy written by Steve Marantz and has been published by University of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Akoy Agau led Omaha Central High School to four straight high school basketball state championships (2010–13) and was a three‐time All‐State player. One of the most successful high school athletes in Nebraska’s history, he’s also a South Sudanese refugee. At age four, Akoy and his family fled Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War, and after three years in Cairo, they came to Maryland as refugees. They arrived in Omaha in 2003 in search of a better future. In Omaha the Agaus joined the largest South Sudanese resettlement population in the United States. While federal resources and local organizations help refugees with housing, health care, and job placement, the challenge to assimilate culturally was particularly steep. For Akoy basketball provided a sense of belonging and an avenue to realize his potential. He landed a Division 1 basketball scholarship to Louisville for a year and a half, then played at Georgetown for two injury‐plagued seasons before he graduated in the spring of 2017. With remaining eligibility, he played for Southern Methodist University while pursuing a graduate degree. In a fluid, intimate, and joyful narrative, Steve Marantz relates Akoy’s refugee journey of basketball, family, romance, social media, and coming of age at Nebraska’s oldest and most diverse high school. Set against a backdrop of the South Sudanese refugee community in Omaha, Marantz provides a compelling account of the power of sports to blend cultures in the unlikeliest of places.
Nebraska History
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Author : Addison Erwin Sheldon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Nebraska History written by Addison Erwin Sheldon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Nebraska categories.
Second Class Citizen
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Author : Buchi Emecheta
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-10-07
Second Class Citizen written by Buchi Emecheta and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with Fiction categories.
'Fresh, timeless ... a lively work of art' Observer 'Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women's writing . . . powerful fictions written from and about our lives' Bernardine Evaristo 'Most dreams, as all dreamers know quite well, do have setbacks. Adah's dream was no exception, for hers had many' They nicknamed Adah 'the Igbo tigress' at school in Nigeria, she was so fearless. Now she has moved to London to join her husband, and is determined to succeed. But her welcome from 1960's England - and the man she married - is a cold one. Providing for her growing family, struggling to survive and negotiating everyday injustices along the way, Adah still resolves that she will never give up her dream of becoming a writer. 'Bold, brave, defiant ... its exploration of blackness, the white gaze, and the development of the main character Adah's sense of self is extremely powerful' Gal-dem
The Ugly Citizen
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Author : Chuks Osuji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Ugly Citizen written by Chuks Osuji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Nigeria categories.
My Country And My People 1 Tm
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Release Date :
My Country And My People 1 Tm written by and has been published by Rex Bookstore, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Your Rights And Responsibilities As A Ghanaian Citizen
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Author : Ibn Yamoah
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Your Rights And Responsibilities As A Ghanaian Citizen written by Ibn Yamoah and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Citizenship categories.
Second Class Citizen
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Author : Buchi Emecheta
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 1983-02
Second Class Citizen written by Buchi Emecheta and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-02 with Nigeria categories.
Citizen And Subject
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Author : Mahmood Mamdani
language : en
Publisher: James Currey
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Citizen And Subject written by Mahmood Mamdani and has been published by James Currey this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Africa categories.
This book examines the state and political conditions in contemporary Africa. It includes chapters on despotism, tribalism, rural and urban communities and peasant movements in equatorial Africa.
Places For Happiness
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Author : William Peterson
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2016-02-29
Places For Happiness written by William Peterson and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-29 with History categories.
Places for Happiness explores two of the most important performance-based activities in the Philippines: the processions and Passion Plays associated with Easter and the mass-dance phenomenon known as “street dancing.” The scale of these handcrafted performances in terms of duration, time commitment, and productive labor marks the Philippines as one of the world’s most significant and undervalued performance-centered cultures. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, William Peterson examines how people come together in the streets or on temporary stages, celebrating a shared sense of community and creating places for happiness. The first half of the book focuses on localized and often highly idiosyncratic versions of the Passion of Christ. Peterson considers not only what people do in these events, but what it feels like to participate. The book’s second half provides a window into the many expressions of “street dancing.” Street dancing is inflected by localized indigenous and folk dance traditions that are reinforced at school and practiced in conjunction with religious civic festivals. Peterson identifies key frames that shape and contain the individual in the Philippines, while tracking how the local expands its expressive home by engaging in a dialogue with regional, national, and diasporic Filipino imaginaries. Ultimately Places for Happiness explores how community-based performance responds to and fulfills basic human needs. Many Filipinos rely on family members and immediate neighbors for support and sustenance, and community-based performance assumes a unique and leading role in defining, reinforcing, and celebrating shared belief systems. By bringing forth the internal, phenomenological, and embodied aspects of a range of community-based practices contributing to human happiness, the book offers a cultural framework that interweaves the individual experience with that of the collective, plotting out what resides inside the body through the coordinates of culture.