A01=Asale Angel-Ajani
Author_Asale Angel-Ajani
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DNXC
Category=JKVG
Category=NL-BT
Category=NL-JK
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
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eq_society-politics
Language_English
Price_€10 to €20
Product details
- ISBN 9781580053136
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2010
- Publisher: Seal Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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 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. Strange Trade follows Pauline and Mary as they traverse three continents, survive wars, poverty, and shattered families, secure drug shipments, and commit murder. Angel-Ajani paints rich, intimate, and profoundly surprising portraits without glamorizing, sanitizing, or offering judgment. The result is an unvarnished journey into a world that, until now, has remained hidden and a glimpse into the motives that led these women to risk,and ultimately lose,everything.
