Review by Theresa Wolfwood
In her dedication the author thanks her mother for the gifts of “mettle, a wakeful conscience...and a precious supply of inventive recipes that tell our story.”
This very personal and frank autobiography shows how well the author, a writer, teacher and mother, has used these gifts to make a life for herself and her family in England after she is forced, along with thousands of others of Asian descent, to leave Uganda when Idi Amin came to power.
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Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin.THE SETTLER’S COOKBOOK: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food. 2008. Portobello Books. London, UK. ISBN 978-1-84627-083-3
Review by Theresa Wolfwood
In her dedication the author thanks her mother for the gifts of “mettle, a wakeful conscience...and a precious supply of inventive recipes that tell our story.”
This very personal and frank autobiography shows how well the author, a writer, teacher and mother, has used these gifts to make a life for herself and her family in England after she is forced, along with thousands of others of Asian descent, to leave Uganda when Idi Amin came to power.
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LEILA KHALED: Icon of Palestinian Liberation. Sarah Irving. 2012. Pluto Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-7453-2951-2
Review by Theresa Wolfwood
“I believe in my people and I believe that we have people all around the world supporting us.”
While most women in the late sixties worried about the length of their miniskirt, one of their contemporaries was worried about the occupation of her homeland and the forced exile of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, including herself. Leila Khaled became famous for her airplane hijacking; famous as a woman and as a Palestinian woman.
The author based her research for the book on records of the past and Khaled’s Read more [...]
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