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Exchange Is Not Robbery : More Stories of an African Bar Girl
Exchange Is Not Robbery More Stories of an African Bar Girl
Author: John M. Chernoff
While living in West Africa in the 1970s, John Chernoff recorded the stories of "Hawa," a spirited and brilliant but uneducated woman whose insistence on being respected and treated fairly propelled her, ironically, into a life of marginality and luck as an "ashawo," or bar girl. Rejecting traditional marriage options and cut off from family sup...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226103556
ISBN-10: 0226103552
Publication Date: 1/15/2005
Pages: 424
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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