Chernoff, John Miller.

Hustling is not stealing : stories of an African bar girl - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003. - 480 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Story of a bar girl, Hawa, who has spent her life circulating between urban centers and rural homelands in Ghana, Togo, and Burkina Faso. She roams this fractured post-colonial landscape, seamlessly connecting the world of the village (where familial relationships never die and witchcraft captures the imagination) to that of the city (where evading police and government officials and constantly struggling to live off the uncertain spoils of the nightlife are everyday occurances) to the baroque, surreal, and often obscene world of the European expatriate. Charles Piot [back cover].

9780226103525

2003010647

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Women--Social conditions.--Ghana
Women--Social conditions.--Togo
Women--Social conditions.--Burkina Faso
Street life--Africa, West.
Prostitution--Africa, West.
Marginality, Social--Africa, West.
Ghana.
Togo.
women workers.
social life.
women.
autobiography.
Marginality, Social
Prostitution
Street life
Women--Social conditions


West Africa
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Togo
Ghana
Burkina Faso
Togo

HQ1816 / .C48 2003

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