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Tag Archives: polemic

Travelling while Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola (Kenya)

Billed by the author as “not a travel memoir”, this is also a polemic about the injustices of migration policy and racism

Posted byimogenglad27th Feb 202328th Feb 2023Posted inbookTags: africa, books, female writers, feminism, kenya, Nanjala Nyabola, polemic, politics, Travelling while Black, travels3 Comments on Travelling while Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola (Kenya)

Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zárate (Peru): Review no 150

A call for action to curb the ill-use of both people and the natural world in Peru.

Posted byimogenglad25th Apr 2021Posted inbookTags: Americas, americas and the caribbean, books, books in translation, environment, journalism, non-fiction, peru, polemic, reportage, the americas and the caribbean8 Comments on Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zárate (Peru): Review no 150

Review no 107: On Time and Water by Andri Snaer Magnason (Iceland)

Uncomfortable read on climate change in Iceland and the likelihood of impending environmental disaster

Posted byimogenglad29th Sep 2020Posted inbookTags: book, books in translation, environment, Europe, iceland, memoir, non-fiction, polemicLeave a comment on Review no 107: On Time and Water by Andri Snaer Magnason (Iceland)

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