Afua Hirsch Libros Populares
Afua Hirsch Biografía y Hechos
Aisha Ayensu es una diseñadora de moda ghanesa conocida por haber diseñado trajes y vestuarios para Beyonce, Genevieve Nnaji o Jackie Appiah.[1][2] Es la fundadora en 2008 y directora creativa de la casa de modas Christie Brown.[3][4] En 2016 fue considerada una de los 30 empresarios jóvenes más prometedores en África por Forbes.[5][6][7] También en 2016 fue la primera de la lista de mujeres más influyentes de Ghana.[8] Ha recibido diversos premios por su trabajo. Biografía Ayensu se licenció en psicología en la Universidad de Ghana y estudió moda en el Joyce Ababio College of Creative Design.[9] Con la inspiración de su abuela, fundó la casa de moda Christie Brown en marzo de 2008 basada en Acra, ahora conocida internacionalmente de la que es directora creativa.[10][11] Tras ser reconocida en Sudáfrica como diseñadora emergente del año en 2009 .[12] En 2016 fue entrevistada por Afua Hirsch para su programa "In the Studio" para el programa de radio del Servicio Mundial de la BBC donde explicó que se enfrenta al "desafío de hacer que su cultura sea globalmente aceptada".[6] También fue incluida como una de las emprendedoras más prometedoras de Forbes en 2016 y ocupó el puesto número uno en la lista de las mujeres más influyentes de Ghana en el mismo año.[8] Premios Entre los premios que ha ganado se encuentran: 2009 - Diseñador emergente del año, evento de moda Arise Africa en Sudáfrica[13] 2010 - La única firma ghanesa elegida para exhibirse en el Arise L'Afrique-á-Porter, en París durante la Semana de la Moda de París[10] 2018 - Mejor diseñador de moda, Premios prestigiosos de África[14] 2018 - Diseñadora africana del año, Glitz Style Awards[15] 2019 - Diseñadora africana del año, Glitz Style Awards[16][17] Referencias. Descubre los libros populares de Afua Hirsch. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Afua Hirsch
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That Reminds Me
Derek OwusuWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020'A singular achievement.'Michael Donkor, Guardian'Heartbreaking, important and original.' Christie Watson, author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDN...
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Feel Free
Zadie SmithWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and WOMEN'S PRIZESHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time discover a seco...
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Safe
Derek Owusu'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish)'[An] outstanding mythbusting book. Everyone should read it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhat is the experience of...
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African and Caribbean People in Britain
Hakim AdiSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE A major new history of Britain that transforms our understanding of this country's past'I've waited so long so read a comprehensively rese...
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Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
Angela Y. DavisFrom trailblazing political activist Angela Y. Davis, a major new collection of essays and interviews that argue for a radical rethinking of our prison systemsAn icon of revolution...
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' Updated edition featuring a new afterword...
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Familiar Stranger
Stuart Hall'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age' Owen Jones 'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'This is the story, in his...
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Black Marxism
Cedric J. Robinson'A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of Black radical thought' Cornel West'Cedric Robinson's brilliant analyses revealed new ways of thinking and...
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The New Age of Empire
Kehinde Andrews"Kehinde Andrews is a crucial voice walking in a proud tradition of Black radical criticism and action" Akala"An uncompromising account of the roots of racism today" Kimberlé Crens...
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I Can't Breathe
Matt Taibbi‘A brilliant work of narrative nonfiction’ – Booklist‘Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power’ – Bernie Sanders‘A searing exposé’ – Kirkus Re...
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A Renaissance of Our Own
Rachel E. CargleWhat would life be like if we had the courage to say, 'I want something different'? 'Elegant, thoughtful, vulnerable, and inspiring' Elizabeth GilbertFrom a highly lauded modern vo...
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Raceless
Georgina LawtonA GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD AND COSMOPOLITAN BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2021'A jawdropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thoughtprovoking book' Sunday TimesGeorgina...
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Tribes
David Lammy'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly selfscrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who knows its author only f...
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Me and White Supremacy
Layla Saad & Robin DiAngelo'An indispensable resource for white people who want to challenge white supremacy but don't know where to begin' Robin DiAngelo, author of WHITE FRAGILITY'It should be mandatory...
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An Education
John Walshe'Fascinating' Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times'It's a fascinating book. I ended up reading it till about four in the morning. It gives an incredible insight.' Shane Coleman, political e...
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Motherland
Luke Pepera'Magesterial, brilliant, capacious and transformative' Kate WilliamsMotherland by historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera is a groundbreaking new exploration of Af...
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Sista Sister
Candice BrathwaiteCandice Brathwaite's muchanticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was young and needed guidance.I Am Not Your Baby Mother was a landmark pub...
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White Tears Brown Scars
Ruby Hamad'Powerful and provocative' Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the Sunday Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist'A MUST read for any white women who consider themselves "feminist"' ...
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Can We All Be Feminists?
June Eric-Udorie'A map for how feminism can move forward inclusively' (GRAZIA), featuring essays by writers including Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, and Afua Hirsch, bests...
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Against White Feminism
Rafia ZakariaPersonal, provocative and powerfully persuasive an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it'Thoughtful and provocative... It is a...
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Dreaming in a Nightmare
Jeremiah Emmanuel'His book reads as an inspirational text (Emmanuel is an altruistic entrepreneur and activist who started his first charity as a teenager), and a rousing heartfelt testimony in whi...
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Sequins for a Ragged Hem
Amryl JohnsonA beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980s'Memories demanded that I complete this book. If w...
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother
Candice BrathwaiteTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (May 2020)'Really good ... accessible, sometimes shocking, honest, and feels written from the heart' Bernardine Evaristo'I gobbled it in one weekend an...
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The Dead Are Arising
Les Payne & Tamara PayneWINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)Shortlisted for the HWA NonFiction Crown AwardFinalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography ...
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Mixed/Other
Natalie MorrisHow does it feel when your heritage isn't listed as an option on an identification form?What is it like to grow up as the only person in your family who looks like you?Where do you...
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Travellers
Helon Habila'Once I started reading Travellers, I couldn't stop. With power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe. Refugees and not ...
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Begin Again
Eddie S. Glaude JR.THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibly moving and stirring' DIANA EVANSA...
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The Same Earth
Kei MillerFrom the WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2014, a 'humorous, bittersweet fiction, combin[ing] the fantastical realism of Marquez with the domestic comedy of Andrea L...
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Carefree Black Girls
Zeba Blay'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.'Robert J...
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Legacy
Thomas HardingFrom the bestselling author of the forthcoming WHITE DEBT, a major piece of British history 'I was riveted' Nigella Lawson
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing BrownA REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'An example of how one woman can change the world by telling the truth about her life with unflinching, relentless courage' GLENN...
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Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall'It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it' PANDORA SYKES, THE HIGH LOW 'My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist will read t...
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A Woman Like Me
Diane AbbottFrom challenging expectations as a bright and restless child of the Windrush generation to making history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK, Diane Abbott has seen it a...
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Eight Weeks
Baroness Lola YoungLola Young has been an actress, an academic, an activist and a crossbench peer. But from the age of eight weeks to eighteen years, she was moved between foster care placements and ...
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The Shoulders We Stand On
Preeti DhillonThe UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before. Embracing a broader history that encompasses a...
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The Strangers
Ekow EshunRichly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home.'Thrilling and ingen...
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The Life and Times of a Very British Man
Kamal AhmedA revealing, honest and often comic comingofage story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race 'Full of charm' GUARDIAN 'An account of what being Br...
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Afropean
Johny PittsWinner of the Jhalak Prize'A revelation' Owen Jones'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with blackness and paints it into something...
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Black Tudors
Miranda KaufmannA new, transformative history – in Tudor times there were Black people living and working in Britain, and they were free‘This is history on the cutting edge of archival research, b...
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The Mixed-Race Experience
Natalie Evans & Naomi Evans'THOUGHTPROVOKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'IMPORTANT' Melissa Hemsley | 'RAZORSHARP' Nels Abbey | 'ESSENTIAL' Jaspreet Kaur | 'INSPIRATIONAL' Sophie Williams | 'REVEALING' Tineka Sm...
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The Redemption of Bobby Love
Bobby Love & Cheryl LoveA Humans of New York Instagram sensation, this is the inspiring, dramatic and heartwarming true story of family, justice and how we all deserve a second chance. The young Walter ...
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Race and Education
Kalwant BhopalWhy is our education system unequal?How does race play a part?Is Britain still institutionally racist?Education remains the greatest indicator of life chances in Britain. What we s...
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Taking Up Space
Chelsea Kwakye & Ore Ogunbiyi'Brilliant' CANDICE CARTYWILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE'Essential' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER'Hugely important' PAULA AKPANAs a minority in a predominantly whit...
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Growing Out
Barbara Blake Hannah'A gorgeously exuberant account. . . writing that is natural and vivacious . . . a fascinating and hugely enjoyable read.' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionTravelling over...
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Black is the Body
Emily BernardA New Statesman essential nonfiction read of 2021'Everybody should read [this]' Stylist"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation an...
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Well-Read Black Girl
Glory Edim'Required reading.' CosmopolitanRemember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers...
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Britons Through Negro Spectacles
ABC Merriman-Labor'We shall therefore confine our walk to Central London where people meet on business during the day, and to West London where they meet for pleasure at night. If you will walk abou...
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This Land Is Our Land
Suketu MehtaAn impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City.Drawing on his family’s own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and year...
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My Name Is Maame
Jessica GeorgeTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Hilarious, honest and heartbreaking, MAAME is the most moving debut of 2023 and a heroine you'll never forget.Read with Jenna Today Book Clu...
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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young AfricanAmerican couple.' Barack ObamaNewlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. H...
