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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Shadows of Love and Legacy is a multigenerational novel set across Cameroon, Canada, and the silent spaces in between. It explores the enduring bonds of childhood, the weight of cultural tradition, the cost of migration, and the quiet heartbreak of becoming strangers in the name of survival.…The story begins in the small Cameroonian town of Mamfe, where two children-Besong and Agbor-form an innocent friendship beneath a mango tree, their laughter mingling with ancestral dust. Their bond, rooted in village life and family ritual, seems unbreakable. But when Agbor's family questions Besong's ambition, and Besong's father sends him away to boarding school, the two are forced apart-beginning a lifelong pattern of closeness and distance, intimacy and separation.Years later, Besong returns from school with grand plans. He becomes a shrewd businessman, navigating Africa's economic landscape with ambition and charm. Agbor, in contrast, chooses a quieter path-becoming a teacher, then a nurse. Their love rekindles, now tempered by adult responsibilities. Despite family tensions, they marry in a grand traditional ceremony, only to find their union threatened by early fractures: long work hours, mismatched expectations, and the demands of extended kin.They raise three children, but as opportunity calls, the family migrates to Canada. There, cultural roles begin to shift. Agbor's nursing career flourishes while Besong struggles to translate his African success into Western systems. Immigration delays, zoning laws, and racism slow his business dreams. As Agbor's independence grows, Besong clings more tightly to his authority, igniting silent battles that erode their bond.In Canada, love quietly unravels. Agbor gains social confidence while Besong retreats into isolation. Their children, caught between Cameroonian tradition and Western values, begin to question their parents' sacrifices. Public respect masks private resentment. When Besong's parents visit from Cameroon, they find a home full of tension and disobedience-and a son no longer recognized by his family or himself.Agbor eventually begins dating openly. The community watches in judgment as Besong retreats into the comfort of annual trips to Cameroon. In Douala, he builds a second life-another house, another wife, more children. But his double existence cannot last. The truth seeps out, first in whispers, then in scandal.In the midst of it all, COVID-19 strikes. Alone, exhausted, and without legal protection-his assets signed away years before-Besong suffers a stroke in one of his stores. Misidentified as a homeless man, he dies in a Canadian hospital, far from his ancestral land.His death triggers a storm. Two wives. Two sets of children. Two continents. A contested estate. Neither family fully knew the man they are now expected to mourn. Old resentments resurface. The burial becomes a cultural and emotional battleground. But amid the grief and legal chaos, a revelation emerges: a handwritten will, naming a Mamfe orphanage as his sole beneficiary. His final act, it seems, was not revenge-but surrender.As his body returns home, both families face the same questions: What does it mean to belong? Who gets to claim legacy? And what happens to love when it crosses oceans but forgets to come back?The children-across oceans and broken narratives-begin speaking. One reaches out to a half-sibling online. Another plants a mango tree in a Toronto park. Together, they begin not to erase what came before, but to reinterpret it-to turn inherited silence into something new.Shadows of Love and Legacy is a sweeping, culturally rich narrative about the fractures we inherit and the families we make despite them. It is a meditation on masculinity, migration, motherhood, and memory. At once epic a Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Shadows of Love and Legacy is a multigenerational novel set across Cameroon, Canada, and the silent spaces in between. It explores the enduring bonds of childhood, the weight of cultural tradition, the cost of migration, and the quiet heartbreak of becoming strangers in the name of survival.…The story begins in the small Cameroonian town of Mamfe, where two children-Besong and Agbor-form an innocent friendship beneath a mango tree, their laughter mingling with ancestral dust. Their bond, rooted in village life and family ritual, seems unbreakable. But when Agbor's family questions Besong's ambition, and Besong's father sends him away to boarding school, the two are forced apart-beginning a lifelong pattern of closeness and distance, intimacy and separation.Years later, Besong returns from school with grand plans. He becomes a shrewd businessman, navigating Africa's economic landscape with ambition and charm. Agbor, in contrast, chooses a quieter path-becoming a teacher, then a nurse. Their love rekindles, now tempered by adult responsibilities. Despite family tensions, they marry in a grand traditional ceremony, only to find their union threatened by early fractures: long work hours, mismatched expectations, and the demands of extended kin.They raise three children, but as opportunity calls, the family migrates to Canada. There, cultural roles begin to shift. Agbor's nursing career flourishes while Besong struggles to translate his African success into Western systems. Immigration delays, zoning laws, and racism slow his business dreams. As Agbor's independence grows, Besong clings more tightly to his authority, igniting silent battles that erode their bond.In Canada, love quietly unravels. Agbor gains social confidence while Besong retreats into isolation. Their children, caught between Cameroonian tradition and Western values, begin to question their parents' sacrifices. Public respect masks private resentment. When Besong's parents visit from Cameroon, they find a home full of tension and disobedience-and a son no longer recognized by his family or himself.Agbor eventually begins dating openly. The community watches in judgment as Besong retreats into the comfort of annual trips to Cameroon. In Douala, he builds a second life-another house, another wife, more children. But his double existence cannot last. The truth seeps out, first in whispers, then in scandal.In the midst of it all, COVID-19 strikes. Alone, exhausted, and without legal protection-his assets signed away years before-Besong suffers a stroke in one of his stores. Misidentified as a homeless man, he dies in a Canadian hospital, far from his ancestral land.His death triggers a storm. Two wives. Two sets of children. Two continents. A contested estate. Neither family fully knew the man they are now expected to mourn. Old resentments resurface. The burial becomes a cultural and emotional battleground. But amid the grief and legal chaos, a revelation emerges: a handwritten will, naming a Mamfe orphanage as his sole beneficiary. His final act, it seems, was not revenge-but surrender.As his body returns home, both families face the same questions: What does it mean to belong? Who gets to claim legacy? And what happens to love when it crosses oceans but forgets to come back?The children-across oceans and broken narratives-begin speaking. One reaches out to a half-sibling online. Another plants a mango tree in a Toronto park. Together, they begin not to erase what came before, but to reinterpret it-to turn inherited silence into something new.Shadows of Love and Legacy is a sweeping, culturally rich narrative about the fractures we inherit and the families we make despite them. It is a meditation on masculinity, migration, motherhood, and memory. A Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Borderlines of the Heart is a sweeping, emotionally charged love story that traces the jagged edges of identity, migration, and belonging across the U.S.-Mexico border and deep into the heart of the Latinx experience.When Marisela, a young Salvadoran woman fleeing violence and economic despa…ir, boards a rickety night bus in Chiapas, she doesn't expect to find connection-let alone the quiet spark of something deeper. But beside her sits Julian, a Mexican-American chef returning from visiting family. He's confident, charming, and safe in ways she has never known. Their bond is tentative but immediate. Yet before their journey even begins, it's torn apart by an immigration raid. Marisela is detained. Julian watches helplessly. Two lives, traveling the same road, suddenly diverge.Weeks later, in the pulsing immigrant neighborhoods of Los Angeles, fate reunites them at a community event in Boyle Heights. Their chemistry resurfaces, but so do the fractures-cultural, linguistic, and personal. Marisela speaks in "vos," guards her trauma tightly, and works tirelessly to support her family back home. Julian, fluent in "tu" and privilege, has dual residency and a growing culinary career, but struggles to connect with a past he's only inherited, not endured. As they fall in love, so too do they clash-over pupusas vs. tacos, language, family, and pride. Their intimacy is sweet but unsteady, tested by casual racism, cultural stereotypes, and deep internal wounds.Told in eighteen lyrical, character-driven chapters-each rooted in Latinx traditions, environments, and tensions-Borderlines of the Heart interweaves the richness of Hispanic food, language, and resilience with the harsh realities of gangs, child support battles, deportation, drug abuse, and generational poverty. From late-night Boyle Heights street parties and kitchen arguments to protest marches, poetry readings, and wedding dances, this novel paints a full, tender, and sometimes painful portrait of modern Latinx life.As Marisela finds her voice and Julian learns to listen, their love transforms from infatuation into something radical-solidarity. Together, they build "Corazon Cruzado," a food truck serving fusion and heritage in equal measure. But true healing only comes when they journey back to El Salvador, to walk barefoot on the beach where Marisela once prayed for escape. There, under open skies, they finally understand: borders may never vanish-but bridges can be built.Borderlines of the Heart is for anyone who has ever felt caught between flags, between accents, between family loyalty and personal freedom. It's a novel about the costs of survival, the courage of reinvention, and the radical act of loving across lines drawn in sand. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. PrefaceThis story began with a question no one thought to ask a child: "What race should we put here?"It's the kind of question meant for boxes, not people. Meant for forms, not families.But for some of us, those boxes never quite fit. And neither does the silence that follows.This is a nove…l about what happens when love crosses oceans, cultures, expectations-and pays the price. It's about what is inherited when two people dare to build a life across borders not just of land, but of language, history, pride, and pain.It is not a fairy tale.There are no perfect heroes here.Only people-fiercely flawed, deeply human-trying not to be erased.At its core, this is the story of Aminah and Zhihao. A Black American girl from a churchgoing D.C. neighborhood and a Chinese boy raised behind the counter of his father's carryout. They meet young. They fall hard. They try to hold their love together in a world where history and identity often work against them.But this is also the story of Kai and Zola, the children of that love. Who must learn how to inherit not just what was given to them-but what was broken before they were born.It's a story told in glances, in silence, in betrayal, in healing.And it's a story about learning to check a box not for what the world expects-but for what you decide you are.Welcome. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When Fire Married Ice is a poignant, politically charged, and emotionally rich novel about love, silence, and the price of becoming fully oneself. Set across Riyadh, Istanbul, London, and Geneva, the story follows two deeply connected souls whose love cannot survive the world that shaped the…m-but whose truth endures in what they could not say until it was too late.Layla Al-Hariri is a rising journalist and co-founder of RISE, a social innovation fund in Saudi Arabia. Brilliant, unapologetic, and driven by the belief that change can come from within, she challenges conservative expectations at every turn. Her columns grow increasingly bold, addressing women's rights, state control, and the tension between modernity and tradition. But when she crosses a line deemed unacceptable, the state turns against her. So does the very institution she helped build. And at the center of that betrayal is the man she once believed would always stand by her.Omar Al-Fulan is Layla's husband and the public face of RISE. A careful reformer, Omar believes in change-just not at the cost of survival. When the pressure mounts, he chooses to remain, to rebrand, to "protect what's possible." Layla, heartbroken by both state and spouse, leaves the country in self-imposed exile. She becomes a symbol of feminist resistance abroad. He becomes the polished architect of a sanitized vision that no longer includes her.Years later, their paths cross again at an international summit in Geneva. Both are keynote speakers. Both have risen in their own, irreconcilable ways. In the privacy of the green room, they speak for the first time in years-a raw, brief conversation full of pain, unfinished love, and truths long buried.Omar confesses, "I thought I was saving you. I was only saving myself."Layla replies, "We were two truths trying to live in the same heart."She gives her final speech-ending with a verse from the Qur'an: "And We made you into nations and tribes that you may know one another." Her voice cracks on the final word. Omar watches from the shadows and disappears again. Later that night, a letter arrives at her hotel desk.In the When Fire Married Ice, Omar lays bare everything: the love he never stopped feeling, the regret he never stopped carrying, and the blessing he never dared speak aloud."In another world, I would've danced with your fire. But in this one, I had to stay ice to survive."Told in dual perspectives, When Fire Married Ice is not a love story in the traditional sense. It is a story of what love becomes when placed under cultural pressure, political tension, and spiritual conflict. It is about the quiet violence of silence, and the quiet revolution of voice. There is no reunion. No dramatic resolution. Only a final act of recognition-between two people who loved each other deeply and lost each other completely.For readers of Elif Shafak, Tayari Jones, and Leila Aboulela, When Fire Married Ice blends emotional intimacy with political nuance. It speaks to readers who understand that sometimes love doesn't conquer-it survives in memory. And sometimes, the only closure we get is knowing we mattered. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In a land torn by barbed wire, surveillance drones, and generational trauma, two people defy the gravity of history.Noura El-Khalil, a young Palestinian woman from Gaza, crosses the Erez checkpoint into Israel each day under strict work permits. Her life is bound by silence, resilience, and…the unshakable rhythm of survival. On the other side of the surveillance wall sits Elior Ben-Avraham, an Israeli intelligence officer and drone operator, trained to see people like Noura as data points, not human beings. But when a new AI system misidentifies her as a threat, and internal politics begin to erode Elior's trust in his role, their lives become entangled in ways neither could predict.When Noura is wrongfully arrested under Israel's emergency security laws, and Hamas brands her a traitor in a public propaganda campaign, both are forced to confront the machinery of suspicion on all sides. As their connection deepens-first in silence, then in letters, then in action-they are forced to make an impossible choice: betray their countries or betray the truth of what they've come to believe in each other. Fleeing war and political persecution, Noura and Elior seek asylum in the United States, where they raise two children-David and Yasmeen-between three languages, three cultures, and a single, fragile hope: that memory does not have to become inheritance. But even in the supposed safety of the American dream, they are watched, questioned, and asked to choose a side. As the political situation between Israel and Palestine spirals into total war, both governments collapse under the weight of their own failures. In the aftermath, the populations are finally allowed to vote. The result-a daring civic proposal for a unified, bi-national state-launches Noura and Elior into the global spotlight. Some call them traitors. Others, prophets. But neither seeks fame. They want only what was denied to them their entire lives: a place to live without fear, to raise children without contradiction, to plant something that cannot be bombed. Their proposal, once mocked, becomes the blueprint for a future built on coexistence, not erasure. In a quiet Jerusalem reborn from the ashes of war, they plant a tree beneath a banner that reads: "Justice lives where love grows." Spanning from Gaza to Tel Aviv, Washington to Ramallah, One Land, One Love is a sweeping, deeply personal novel about war, surveillance, faith, memory, and radical hope. It is not a political manifesto, but a love story rooted in the most dangerous idea of all: imagining a future where no one must lose for others to live.This novel explores what it means to belong to three flags but be claimed by none-and how peace, if it is to come at all, must be imagined by those who have suffered its absence most. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Renaissance of the African Economy is a strategic, analytical, and deeply transformative work that reimagines the economic future of the African continent. Structured in 30 chapters, this book offers an unprecedented roadmap to position Africa as a central player in the global economy th…rough sustainable resource use, institutional consolidation, and the implementation of a resource-backed pan-African currency.It begins with a clear diagnosis of the current impasse: dependence on foreign currencies, inefficient raw material exploitation, weak industrialization, fragmented financial infrastructure, and legal frameworks poorly suited to African realities. It highlights structural issues inherited from colonialism and neocolonialism, as well as internal shortcomings: inconsistent governance, lack of economic unity, and insufficient investment in local technological skills.In response, the author presents a visionary plan: the African Union's 2030 Agenda for monetary sovereignty and self-financed development. This bold proposal includes certifying natural capital (minerals, forests, biodiversity, water), creating the African Central Bank, launching the AfroLedger Coin digital currency, and issuing financial instruments backed by untapped subsoil resources.Throughout the chapters, readers explore a comprehensive architecture for economic integration: Harmonized legal mechanisms for securitizing natural assetsSecure, interoperable digital platforms for cross-border paymentsRegional institutions to mobilize savings and channel investments into strategic infrastructureProactive diplomacy to gain international recognition of African financial instruments by BRICS, G77, and development banksThis project also depends on human and political pillars: rapid training of engineers and blockchain experts, coordination among national central banks, gradual adoption of the currency by RECs (ECOWAS, SADC, EAC), and regular transparency reports to bolster system credibility.Beyond technical and institutional reform, The Renaissance of the African Economy is a call for self-determination. It advocates restoring African control over its resources, monetary sovereignty, institutional trust, and the ability to finance its own future - free from external conditionalities.Aimed at economists, policymakers, researchers, students, diplomats, entrepreneurs, and engaged citizens, this work is at once a strategic manual, political manifesto, and forward-looking vision.Because it's time Africa stopped being a zone of extraction - and became a pole of power. Because wealth lies not just in the ground, but in our ability to organize it. Because African renaissance begins with an economic revolution. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Borderlines of the Heart is a sweeping, emotionally charged love story that traces the jagged edges of identity, migration, and belonging across the U.S.-Mexico border and deep into the heart of the Latinx experience.When Marisela, a young Salvadoran woman fleeing violence and economic despa…ir, boards a rickety night bus in Chiapas, she doesn't expect to find connection-let alone the quiet spark of something deeper. But beside her sits Julian, a Mexican-American chef returning from visiting family. He's confident, charming, and safe in ways she has never known. Their bond is tentative but immediate. Yet before their journey even begins, it's torn apart by an immigration raid. Marisela is detained. Julian watches helplessly. Two lives, traveling the same road, suddenly diverge.Weeks later, in the pulsing immigrant neighborhoods of Los Angeles, fate reunites them at a community event in Boyle Heights. Their chemistry resurfaces, but so do the fractures-cultural, linguistic, and personal. Marisela speaks in "vos," guards her trauma tightly, and works tirelessly to support her family back home. Julian, fluent in "tu" and privilege, has dual residency and a growing culinary career, but struggles to connect with a past he's only inherited, not endured. As they fall in love, so too do they clash-over pupusas vs. tacos, language, family, and pride. Their intimacy is sweet but unsteady, tested by casual racism, cultural stereotypes, and deep internal wounds.Told in eighteen lyrical, character-driven chapters-each rooted in Latinx traditions, environments, and tensions-Borderlines of the Heart interweaves the richness of Hispanic food, language, and resilience with the harsh realities of gangs, child support battles, deportation, drug abuse, and generational poverty. From late-night Boyle Heights street parties and kitchen arguments to protest marches, poetry readings, and wedding dances, this novel paints a full, tender, and sometimes painful portrait of modern Latinx life.As Marisela finds her voice and Julian learns to listen, their love transforms from infatuation into something radical-solidarity. Together, they build "Corazon Cruzado," a food truck serving fusion and heritage in equal measure. But true healing only comes when they journey back to El Salvador, to walk barefoot on the beach where Marisela once prayed for escape. There, under open skies, they finally understand: borders may never vanish-but bridges can be built.Borderlines of the Heart is for anyone who has ever felt caught between flags, between accents, between family loyalty and personal freedom. It's a novel about the costs of survival, the courage of reinvention, and the radical act of loving across lines drawn in sand. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. PrefaceThis story began with a question no one thought to ask a child: "What race should we put here?"It's the kind of question meant for boxes, not people. Meant for forms, not families.But for some of us, those boxes never quite fit. And neither does the silence that follows.This is a nove…l about what happens when love crosses oceans, cultures, expectations-and pays the price. It's about what is inherited when two people dare to build a life across borders not just of land, but of language, history, pride, and pain.It is not a fairy tale.There are no perfect heroes here.Only people-fiercely flawed, deeply human-trying not to be erased.At its core, this is the story of Aminah and Zhihao. A Black American girl from a churchgoing D.C. neighborhood and a Chinese boy raised behind the counter of his father's carryout. They meet young. They fall hard. They try to hold their love together in a world where history and identity often work against them.But this is also the story of Kai and Zola, the children of that love. Who must learn how to inherit not just what was given to them-but what was broken before they were born.It's a story told in glances, in silence, in betrayal, in healing.And it's a story about learning to check a box not for what the world expects-but for what you decide you are.Welcome. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Series: Afroactioneers, Book 11 of 20. Book 11 of 20 - Afroactioneers
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When Fire Married Ice is a poignant, politically charged, and emotionally rich novel about love, silence, and the price of becoming fully oneself. Set across Riyadh, Istanbul, London, and Geneva, the story follows two deeply connected souls whose love cannot survive the world that shaped the…m-but whose truth endures in what they could not say until it was too late.Layla Al-Hariri is a rising journalist and co-founder of RISE, a social innovation fund in Saudi Arabia. Brilliant, unapologetic, and driven by the belief that change can come from within, she challenges conservative expectations at every turn. Her columns grow increasingly bold, addressing women's rights, state control, and the tension between modernity and tradition. But when she crosses a line deemed unacceptable, the state turns against her. So does the very institution she helped build. And at the center of that betrayal is the man she once believed would always stand by her.Omar Al-Fulan is Layla's husband and the public face of RISE. A careful reformer, Omar believes in change-just not at the cost of survival. When the pressure mounts, he chooses to remain, to rebrand, to "protect what's possible." Layla, heartbroken by both state and spouse, leaves the country in self-imposed exile. She becomes a symbol of feminist resistance abroad. He becomes the polished architect of a sanitized vision that no longer includes her.Years later, their paths cross again at an international summit in Geneva. Both are keynote speakers. Both have risen in their own, irreconcilable ways. In the privacy of the green room, they speak for the first time in years-a raw, brief conversation full of pain, unfinished love, and truths long buried.Omar confesses, "I thought I was saving you. I was only saving myself."Layla replies, "We were two truths trying to live in the same heart."She gives her final speech-ending with a verse from the Qur'an: "And We made you into nations and tribes that you may know one another." Her voice cracks on the final word. Omar watches from the shadows and disappears again. Later that night, a letter arrives at her hotel desk.In the When Fire Married Ice, Omar lays bare everything: the love he never stopped feeling, the regret he never stopped carrying, and the blessing he never dared speak aloud."In another world, I would've danced with your fire. But in this one, I had to stay ice to survive."Told in dual perspectives, When Fire Married Ice is not a love story in the traditional sense. It is a story of what love becomes when placed under cultural pressure, political tension, and spiritual conflict. It is about the quiet violence of silence, and the quiet revolution of voice. There is no reunion. No dramatic resolution. Only a final act of recognition-between two people who loved each other deeply and lost each other completely.For readers of Elif Shafak, Tayari Jones, and Leila Aboulela, When Fire Married Ice blends emotional intimacy with political nuance. It speaks to readers who understand that sometimes love doesn't conquer-it survives in memory. And sometimes, the only closure we get is knowing we mattered. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In a land torn by barbed wire, surveillance drones, and generational trauma, two people defy the gravity of history.Noura El-Khalil, a young Palestinian woman from Gaza, crosses the Erez checkpoint into Israel each day under strict work permits. Her life is bound by silence, resilience, and…the unshakable rhythm of survival. On the other side of the surveillance wall sits Elior Ben-Avraham, an Israeli intelligence officer and drone operator, trained to see people like Noura as data points, not human beings. But when a new AI system misidentifies her as a threat, and internal politics begin to erode Elior's trust in his role, their lives become entangled in ways neither could predict.When Noura is wrongfully arrested under Israel's emergency security laws, and Hamas brands her a traitor in a public propaganda campaign, both are forced to confront the machinery of suspicion on all sides. As their connection deepens-first in silence, then in letters, then in action-they are forced to make an impossible choice: betray their countries or betray the truth of what they've come to believe in each other. Fleeing war and political persecution, Noura and Elior seek asylum in the United States, where they raise two children-David and Yasmeen-between three languages, three cultures, and a single, fragile hope: that memory does not have to become inheritance. But even in the supposed safety of the American dream, they are watched, questioned, and asked to choose a side. As the political situation between Israel and Palestine spirals into total war, both governments collapse under the weight of their own failures. In the aftermath, the populations are finally allowed to vote. The result-a daring civic proposal for a unified, bi-national state-launches Noura and Elior into the global spotlight. Some call them traitors. Others, prophets. But neither seeks fame. They want only what was denied to them their entire lives: a place to live without fear, to raise children without contradiction, to plant something that cannot be bombed. Their proposal, once mocked, becomes the blueprint for a future built on coexistence, not erasure. In a quiet Jerusalem reborn from the ashes of war, they plant a tree beneath a banner that reads: "Justice lives where love grows." Spanning from Gaza to Tel Aviv, Washington to Ramallah, One Land, One Love is a sweeping, deeply personal novel about war, surveillance, faith, memory, and radical hope. It is not a political manifesto, but a love story rooted in the most dangerous idea of all: imagining a future where no one must lose for others to live.This novel explores what it means to belong to three flags but be claimed by none-and how peace, if it is to come at all, must be imagined by those who have suffered its absence most. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Renaissance of the African Economy is a strategic, analytical, and deeply transformative work that reimagines the economic future of the African continent. Structured in 30 chapters, this book offers an unprecedented roadmap to position Africa as a central player in the global economy th…rough sustainable resource use, institutional consolidation, and the implementation of a resource-backed pan-African currency.It begins with a clear diagnosis of the current impasse: dependence on foreign currencies, inefficient raw material exploitation, weak industrialization, fragmented financial infrastructure, and legal frameworks poorly suited to African realities. It highlights structural issues inherited from colonialism and neocolonialism, as well as internal shortcomings: inconsistent governance, lack of economic unity, and insufficient investment in local technological skills.In response, the author presents a visionary plan: the African Union's 2030 Agenda for monetary sovereignty and self-financed development. This bold proposal includes certifying natural capital (minerals, forests, biodiversity, water), creating the African Central Bank, launching the AfroLedger Coin digital currency, and issuing financial instruments backed by untapped subsoil resources.Throughout the chapters, readers explore a comprehensive architecture for economic integration: Harmonized legal mechanisms for securitizing natural assetsSecure, interoperable digital platforms for cross-border paymentsRegional institutions to mobilize savings and channel investments into strategic infrastructureProactive diplomacy to gain international recognition of African financial instruments by BRICS, G77, and development banksThis project also depends on human and political pillars: rapid training of engineers and blockchain experts, coordination among national central banks, gradual adoption of the currency by RECs (ECOWAS, SADC, EAC), and regular transparency reports to bolster system credibility.Beyond technical and institutional reform, The Renaissance of the African Economy is a call for self-determination. It advocates restoring African control over its resources, monetary sovereignty, institutional trust, and the ability to finance its own future - free from external conditionalities.Aimed at economists, policymakers, researchers, students, diplomats, entrepreneurs, and engaged citizens, this work is at once a strategic manual, political manifesto, and forward-looking vision.Because it's time Africa stopped being a zone of extraction - and became a pole of power. Because wealth lies not just in the ground, but in our ability to organize it. Because African renaissance begins with an economic revolution. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
