RETHINKING AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: TOWARD A FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND ECOLOGICAL HARMONY Autobiography 2016 National Book Critics Circle

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for poetry 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award finalist 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award finalist Named a top poetry book of spring 2016 by Library Journal

Nikki self-published her first book Black Feeling

It survived and even flourished under the anti-clan regime of "scientific socialism" of 1970s Somalia

Charleston played against

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RETHINKING AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: TOWARD A FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND ECOLOGICAL HARMONY Autobiography 2016 National Book Critics CircleThis book is a critical review of the theory and practice of development in Africa during the period 1965 1994. The author identifies six leading issues in African development: economic reform; democratization; environment degradations