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Strange trade : the story of two women who risked everything in the international drug trade
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"Strange Trade" tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss. A leading expert on women and orga...
"Strange Trade" tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss. A leading expert on women and organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these women in Italy's notorious Rebibbia Prison--and gained unprecedented access into the narcotics trade. Herself the daughter of a drug trafficker, Angel-Ajani brings a wrenching, deeply personal perspective to the account of these women's lives, and offers a nuanced understanding of the global context within which African women are entering the drug trade in ever-increasing numbers.
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- Creator
- Asale Angel-Ajani
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- Language
- English
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- Berkeley, CA : Seal Press, [2010]
- ©2010
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- 327 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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- 9781580053136, 1580053130
- OCLC
- ocn555629482
- Prologue : cui bono -- American girl, Roman prison -- Urbi et orbi -- The place to be -- Mary and James -- A martyr and the murderess -- A year like any other -- A letter -- Death, a fragment -- Family sublime -- Tempting matrons -- Note to self -- Speaking in tongues -- The branches and the vine -- Finding Albert -- Changes -- Drug orphan -- Monrovia bound -- A business of virtues -- All our kin -- Meeting Emmanuel -- Educating Pauline -- Ourselves or nothing -- Temporary assignment -- Uganda -- Singapore -- I belong here -- Straight is the gate, narrow is the way -- Tomorrow the past will come -- The oracle -- Marooned -- Exit Emmanuel -- Waiting rituals -- Becoming boss -- Dust of living -- Diagnosis -- Salutations from sunny Nigeria -- Respect -- Metamorphosis -- All-African summit -- Underneath oblivion -- Guarded privacies -- So gentle a woman -- Out of time -- Seasons of sun and rain -- A tiny, harmless death -- The quality of light -- Epilogue : straitjackets