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John Sinclair is Professor of International Communication at Victoria University, Australia, the author of Latin American Television: A Global View and co-editor of New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision.Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies and the Director for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the co-author of The Australian TV Book (2000).

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I've even thought of a name for it. Delicious Agony. Coz that's what it is. The villain's pulling a fast one and the audience can only sit and watch. Do you know what I mean?'Duncan is an ambitious young TV producer, ready to do anything to find the next big hit. While planning to bring wrestling back to British TV screens, he meets Victor, aka The Count of Monte Cristo. Victor is one of the old guard, past his prime but desperate to reclaim his glory days and he's a perfect pawn for Duncan to use in his climb to the top of the industry ladder.Packed with hilarious one-liners, this razor-sharp media satire was first performed at Soho Theatre in a production starring Martin Freeman.

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Winner of Best Playwright and Best Director at the 2003 New York Fringe FestivalLogan Brown and Matthew Benjamin's hilarious take on casual carnage is a laugh-a-minute, fast-paced classic cop-caper, with drugs, guns and bodies in car trunks. But it combines this tale of sexy young things behaving badly with a twister of a morality tale, begging the question what would you do if you could get away with it? How to Act Around Cops is a timely and illuminating insight into the corrupting effect of power in the world's richest nations, and asks the question: if you're untouchable surely you can do anything and get away with it?Production at the Pleasance Courtyard at the Edinburgh Fringe 2004 followed by a transfer to the Soho Theatre, London.

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John Osborne was born in London in 1929. He worked as a journalist for a number of trade magazines before becoming an Assistant Stage Manager and actor with several repertory companies. Look Back in Anger (1956) has come to stand as a key text for modern British Drama, and prompted other successes with The Entertainer and Epitaph for George Dillon. He was the first of many writers to be 'discovered' by the Royal Court Theatre, and Look Back in Anger was the first of the Royal Court's plays to be internationally recognised. Osborne adapted Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer for film. He also wrote an Oscar winning screenplay adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones.

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Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of near-future climate-collapse London.They pay for the beer they don't steal with money from their sketchy astronomy site Zodiac Code, while Charlie's bio-bespoke augments equip the criminals, punks, and eco-warriors of London. They have to deal with disgruntled clients, scene kids who don't dig their band, and a city that's run by corporates and criminals. Their world is split into three factions: Green - who are still trying to save the world; Blue - who try to profit while they can, and Black - who see no hope left. When a group of extremist Green activists hire them for a series of jobs ranging from robbery to murder, Charlie - who struggles to feel anything except Black - wants to walk away. But Parker still believes they can make a difference, and urges her to accept. As they enter an escalating biological arms race against faceless corporations, amor

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Jeffery D. Long is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College, USA. Jeffery specializes in the religions and philosophies of India. He is the author of several books and numerous articles, as well the editor of the series Explorations in Indic Traditions.

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The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind the book of an era' (Independent)These characters, their money and their morality come together in an absolutely devastating thunderclap'KILEY REID, bestselling author of Come and Get ItA slow-burn tale of connivance and deceit with a knockout ending'OBSERVERMoney talks. But what if it lies?An ambitious young Black woman, plotting her way into the world of the one percent.An old white billionaire, facing his own extinction.He's attracted to her intelligence, her refusal to be deferential, maybe also her Blackness.She's drawn to his power and money and his apparent willingness to share both with her.But how far is each prepared to go to get what they think they deserve?Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a biting tale for our new gilded a

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'Sharp and funny and humane ... Brydie skewers everyone equally, but always with empathy, warmth and wit.' Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually'A novel that really nails the chaos, panic and joy of being young' Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable'Captures twentysomething chaos ... Very funny' THE TIMESA funny and tender twenty-first century story of family, friendship, and bisexual love - and how getting it wrong is sometimes the only way to get it right.WHO IS ADA?With Sadie she's an Aussie girl in London, a performer, a ball of creativity and a lover of food.With Stuart she's funny and quirky, capable of finding romance in a dinner of crisps on a cold harbour and long train rides.With her family she's the joker, the peacekeeper, the entertainer.But she doesn't have to choose which version of

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'A delight from start to finish' SUNDAY TIMES'A triumph of ingenuity' DAILY MAIL 'I loved it! ... A whiff of Shardlake and a pinch of Rumpole ... a joy' S.J. BENNETT, author of THE WINDSOR KNOTWhen barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case - the disputed authorship of bestselling children's book Millie the Temple Church Mouse - that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep.But even he cannot fail to notice the judge's dusty bare feet, in shocking contrast to his flawless evening dress, nor the silver carving knife sticking out of his chest. In the shaded courtyards and ancient buildings of the Inner Temple, the hidden heart of London's legal world, murder has spent centuries confined firmly to

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THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Want makes for addictive reading . . . compelling' Guardian'I just loved reading it. It's exceptional' Fearne Cotton, Happy PlaceWhat do you want when no one is watching?Who do you fantasise about when the lights are off?When you think about sex, what do you really want? When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet so many of us don't talk about it at all. In this groundbreaking book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous sexual fantasies of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous submission). They are all extraordinary: full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and, ultimately, liberation. From dreaming about someone off-limits to conjuring

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'When a renowned constitutional scholar explains why the law is not enough and is sometimes even the problem, we need to listen' PETER GRAY, AUTHOR OF FREE TO LEARN'Skach convincingly tells us that laws and rules are not sufficient for living together in peace' CARLO ROVELLI, AUTHOR OF SEVEN BRIEF LESSONS ON PHYSICS'This book will help you understand the mess we're in while providing a roadmap for a better future' BEN RAWLENCEWe believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right from wrong, live comfortably in our communities and be good neighbours to one another? C.L. Skach feels differently. She always believed in the strength of the law - she spent her career in some of the most fractured, war-torn corners of the world, reading and writing constitutions to help fix society. But as she sat alone i

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_______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE _______________ 'Epic, beautifully crafted . . . Gripping from start to finish' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider NEW STATESMAN 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' DAILY MAIL _______________ One extraordinary woman. One hundred years of history. One unforgettable story. Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Told in the form of a letter to someone Violeta loves above all others, this is the story of a hundred

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Paris. August. One long summer of nothing. 48 hours of everything. From the inimitable Meg Rosoff comes a chaotic and irresistible new YA.17-year-old Callum is facing an unfortunate truth: his summer exchange in rural France was a failure. No epic adventure, no summer fling, and his French is still rubbish. Just as he should be boarding the Eurostar home, without even a hint of a plan, Callum impulsively decides to stay (and doesn''t bother telling his parents). He only knows one person in Paris: his long-lost cousin, Harrison, an oboist. As night falls on the hottest weekend of the year, an adventure begins involving a motorbike, a curfew, a stolen oboe, a priceless Matisse painting, at least one police chase, a climate protest and the enigmatic, alluring, irresistible Lilou A completely delicious, funny, fast-paced summer read from the multi-award-winning author of How I Live Now, The Great Godden and Friends Like These.

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Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award Imagined with an impressively detailed three-dimensional solidity Sunday Times 'I loved it You could feel the chill of the wind Fantastic; it s a great book' Sara Cox, BBC Two 'Between the Covers' Stylish and thoughtful The eerie claustrophobia of the setting will stay with the reader for a long while.' Literary Review 'Unputdownable An extraordinary book as insightful and as premonitory as Orwell s 1984 Litro ___________________________________________________ Not all that is hidden is lost. For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they must take for survival every eight hours. They ve kept busy Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with his sculptures and maps bu

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Named a most-anticipated book of 2024 by the Sunday Times, Financial Times, Stylist, Vogue, NPR.org, Oprah Daily, Town & Country and more.'A moving story of how easily a life can be submerged by work, and what it takes to regain one's soul' Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author of Four Thousand WeeksWhat are you willing to sacrifice to get to the top?What it might take to break free and leave it all behind?Carrie Sun can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. At twenty-nine, she's left her job, dropped out of an MBA program and is trapped in an unhappy engagement. So when she gets the opportunity to work at one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, she can't say no. Carrie is the sole assistant to the firm's billionaire founder: she manages his work life, becomes his right hand and learns that money can solve nearly everything.But amid the

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Leigh Wilson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster, UK. Nick Hubble is Head of English Literature at Brunel University, UK.Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

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Surrealism is one of the most influential and popular art forms of the last century. It has shaped painting, literature, film, photography, music, theatre, architecture, fashion and design, as well as thinking about politics and culture. The Encyclopedia presents the first comprehensive and systematic overview of surrealism internationally, from its beginnings to the present day. Volume 1 includes overviews of national surrealist movements, surrealism's influence across the visual, applied and performing arts, and analyses of the concepts which underpin surrealism. Volumes 2 and 3 present an A-Z of both the significant and the lesser-known individuals - theorists, critics, novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, designers, painters, collagists, object makers, sculptors, film makers, and photographers who have made and continue to make surrealism. The volume concludes with a detailed overview of contemporary surrealist practice.

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A major monument in the writing of worldwide history Book of the Week, Times Higher Education Winner of the 2023 Architecture Book of the Year Award (Company of Architects)Winner of the Colvin Prize 2020 (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain)2020 Dartmouth Medal Honorable MentionSir Banister Fletcher's Global History of Architecture is the acknowledged classic reference work for architectural history. It has been essential reading for generations of architects and students since the first edition was published in 1896 and this tradition continues today as the new 21st edition provides the most up-to-date, authoritative and detailed account of the global history of architecture available in any form.Thousands of major buildings from around the world are described and explained, accompanied by over 2,200 photographs, plans, and drawings. Architectural styles and traditions are placed within a clear framework, and

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This fully-updated third edition of Teaching Mathematics using ICT incorporates all the most recent developments in mathematics education, including the new National Curriculum and recent Ofsted maths report. The authors also bring the hardware and software sections of the book right up to date, as well as telling you where to find all the best free resources! The book reflects the shift in focus to personalized learning and cross-curricular approaches, and suggested answers to the reflective questions peppered throughout the text are featured on the book's dedicated website. This user-friendly book is the definitive guide to using ICT to teach mathematics, and will be a valuable resource for all secondary school maths teachers and trainees.

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Containing over 70 tried-and-tested activities, Activities for Individual Learning through Shape and Colour is a practical resource which takes a cross-curricular thematic approach and uses the themes of shape and colour to explore the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). This thematic approach saves preparation and teaching time for practitioners and provides children with more effective and engaging activities. It also familiarises children with the more sophisticated cross-curricular projects they will encounter in the primary school. Activities are clustered around particular shapes and colours and each set of activities is clearly linked to the EYFS Early Learning Goals.Activities for Individual Learning through Shape and Colour is a highly practical invaluable resource book for all early years practitioners.

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STEVE DAWKINS is Senior Lecturer in Communication, Culture and Media at the School of Coventry Art and Design, Coventry University UK.IAN WYND is Senior Lecturer in Media at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College, Hinckley,UK.

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GEOFF FINCH retired from Anglia Ruskin University in 2006, where he was Senior Lecturer in English language and literature, and now works as a freelance lecturer and writer. His is the author of How to Study Linguistics, A Guide to Understanding Language, Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics and Word of Mouth: A New Introduction to Language and Communication.KEITH ALLAN is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University, Australia. His research focuses on aspects of meaning in Language and his publications include Natural Language Semantics, Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language (with Kate Burridge),The WesternClassical Tradition in Linguistics and The Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics. JULIE BRADSHAW is Lecturer in Linguistics at Monash University, Australia. Her main interests are in the sociolinguistic aspects of second language acquisition and use.GEORGINA HEYDON was Research Fellow in the Linguistics Program at Monash University and is now Senior Lecturer in Crimi

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WILLIAM HENRY FOSTER is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is a former holder of the Keasbey Fellowship at Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK, and has previously taught American History at Cornell University, USA, and the University of Pennsylvania, USA

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STUART HAMPTON-REEVES is Course Leader for English and Theatre Studies and Subject Leader for Drama at University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is a founder member and on the executive of the British Shakespeare Association. He is author of Shakespeare in Performance: The Henry VI Plays (MUP 2004).

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MARGARET WILKIE has practised as a solicitor and is an experienced teacher and examiner. She was Principal Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Westminster, UK, and is now Visiting Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. She has written books and articles on property-related subjects and is co-author of a book on commercial leases.GODFREY COLE is a District Chairman in the Tribunals Service. Prior to that, he was an academic for over twenty years, the majority of which was spent at the University of Westminster, UK. He has taught and examined a wide range of subjects including Landlord and Tenant Law and has published numerous articles.PETER LUXTON is Professor of Property Law at the University of Sheffield, UK, and teaches Landlord and Tenant Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.JILL MORGAN is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of East Anglia, UK, where she teaches Land Law, Housing Law and Landlord and Tenant Law.

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Phil Smith is Associate Professor (Reader) at Plymouth University, UK. He is a performance-maker, writer and ambulatory researcher. He is a core member of Wrights & Sites and co-author of their The Architect-Walker' (2018), and company dramaturg for Munich-based TNT Theatre. His previous publications include Rethinking Mythogeography in Northfield, Minnesota' (2018, with photographer John Schott), Anywhere' (2017), Walking Stumbling Limping Falling' (2017, with poet Alyson Hallett), A Footbook of Zombie Walking' and Walking's New Movement' (2015), On Walking' and Enchanted Things' (2014), Counter-Tourism: The Handbook' (2012) and Mythogeography' (2010).

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Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London. Prior to that he was Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Sydney, and Head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House, London. With 30 years experience of life in China, he has worked in education, business and government, including a term as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing. He is author of over 20 books on contemporary China, including The World According to Xi: Everything You Need to Know About the New China (2018). He is currently working on a history of Britain's relations with China since the 16th century.

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Sudha Bhuchar is an acclaimed actor/playwright/founder of Bhuchar Boulevard. As co-founder of Tamasha, with Kristine Landon-Smith, their landmark work includes A Fine Balance &the award-winning musical Fourteen Songs Two Weddings and a Funeral. Other plays include Child of the Divide (Winner Asian media awards 2018), My Name is. (also adapted for Radio 4) & The House of Bilquis Bibi (Lorca's The House of Bernada Alba transposed to Pakistan). Recent commissions are Touchstone Tales (RevolutonArts/Wellcome Collection) and French like Faiza (Radio3 cowritten with Ilana Navaro). Sudha has written and is appearing in her one woman show, Evening Conversations.Acting credits include Khandan (Royal Court /Birmingham Rep),The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and Lions and Tigers (Globe Theatre). TV includes Coronation street, Stella & Noughts and Crosses. Film: Mogul Mowgli, Mary Poppins R

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Rob Drummond is a writer, performer and director from Glasgow. His theatre credits include Sixteen, Bullet Catch, Hunter, Post Show, Allotment, Mr Write, Rob Drummond: Wrestling and Top Table. In 2011 Rob wrote, performed and directed his critically acclaimed show Rob Drummond: Wrestling for which he trained as a professional wrestler. His dark comedy Top Table appeared at Oran Mor in 2011 and his modern retelling of the Passion premiered in George Square in 2015. His play Don't. Make. Tea. premiered at the Traverse Theatre in autumn 2022 to critical acclaim, before it toured the UK in spring 2024.

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Tim Crouch is a UK theatre artist based in Brighton. He writes plays, performs in them and takes responsibility for their production. He started to make his own work in 2003. Before then he was an actor. Tim works with a number of associates and collaborators to produce his writing. There isn't a company structure; things and people are brought together when they are needed. The starting process has always been a text written by Crouch. Early work was made in response to a self-generated impulse to tell a story or explore a form. This impulse is still the first motivation but, lately, it's become slightly more formalized through the involvement of various commissioning theatres and organizations. Tim's work tours extensively to UK and international venues and festivals.

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Tom Murray is a playwright and dramaturg. He graduated from Durham University in 2021 with a degree in History before doing an MA in Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths in 2022. He was named the Peter Shaffer Playwright in Residence at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2023. His play North Star was the winning script for the RSC 37 Plays competition in 2023.

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Guilherme Carréra is a Brazilian film researcher and curator. He holds a PhD in Film awarded by the University of Westminster. His project was sponsored by the CAPES Foundation (Ministry of Education, Brazil).

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Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Leeds, UK.

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Martha Bayless is Professor of Medieval Studies and director of the Folklore and Public Culture Program at the University of Oregon, USA.

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Louise Peacock is Associate Professor of Drama in the School of Arts, Design and Humanities at De Montfort University, UK.

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Ryan Craig is a British playwright, screen, television and radio writer best known for his plays What We Did To Weinstein which earned him a Most Promising Playwright Nomination at the Evening Standard Awards; The Glass Room, which deals with Holocaust denial; the English version of Tadeusz Slobodzianek's Our Class for the National Theatre which has subsequently played all over the world, The Holy Rosenbergs, the semi-autobiographical Filthy Business and the university-set Charlotte and Theodore. He has been Writer-in-Residence at both the National Theatre Studio and BBC Radio Drama and his memoir cum writing handbook, Writing In Coffee Shops; Confessions of A Playwright was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.

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Angela Taraborrelli is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Cagliari, Italy. She has published two volumes on cosmopolitanism: From the Citizen of the World to the World of Citizens. An Essay on Kant, and Contemporary Cosmopolitanism. She works on cosmopolitanism, democracy, and migration, with a special interest in the topic of migrant integration.

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Stella Cottrell is an international bestselling author, with over a million sales worldwide. Her other titles include The Study Skills Handbook, Critical Thinking Skills, Skills for Success, The Bloomsbury Student Planner, The Exam Skills Handbook and Mindfulness for Students. Stella was formerly Director of Lifelong Learning at the University of Leeds, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching at the University of East London.

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Olaf Bachmann is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, UK. He lived and worked as a practitioner for many years in Central Africa, including in Gabon, Cameroon, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of Congo. His teaching and research focuses on security governance and leadership theory in the developing world.

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Odilile Ayodele is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research focuses on the international relations of technology and digital diplomacy in Africa.

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