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	The Missing SlateArticles Archive &#8211; The Missing Slate	</title>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t cry like a girl. Be a (wo)man.</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/a-word-from-the-editor-in-chief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TMS Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maryam Piracha]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Why holding up the women in our lives can help build a nation, in place of tearing it down. ]]></description>
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		<title>This House is an African House</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/this-house-is-an-african-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/kadija-sesay/" rel="tag">Kadija Sesay</a></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Purchin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kadija Sesay]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA["This house is an African house./ This your body is an African womanâ€™s body..." By Kadija Sesay.]]></description>
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		<title>Shoots</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/shoots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/kadija-sesay/" rel="tag">Kadija Sesay</a></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iryna Lialko]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA["Sapling legs bend smoothly, power foot in place,/ her back, parallel to solid ground,/ makes her torso a table of support..." By Kadija Sesay.
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		<title>A Dry Season Doctor in West Africa</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/a-dry-season-doctor-in-west-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/viola-allo/" rel="tag">Viola Allo</a></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tobias Oggenfuss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viola Allo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18346</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["She presses her toes together.  I will never marry, she says. Jamais dans cette vie! Where can I find a man like you?" By Viola Allo.]]></description>
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		<title>Property of a Sorceress</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/property-of-a-sorceress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/viola-allo/" rel="tag">Viola Allo</a></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18348</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["She died under mango trees, under kola nut/ and avocado trees, her nose pressed to their roots,/ her hands buried in dead leaves, her thin legs/ spread out like palm oil in a hot pan." By Viola Allo.]]></description>
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		<title>What Took Us to War</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/what-took-us-to-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/patricia-jabbeh-wesley/" rel="tag">Patricia Jabbeh Wesley</a></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Purchin]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18350</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["What took us to war has again begun,/ and what took us to war/ has opened its wide mouth/ again to confuse us." By Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes, I Close My Eyes</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/sometimes-i-close-my-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/patricia-jabbeh-wesley/" rel="tag">Patricia Jabbeh Wesley</a></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18352</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["sometimes, this is the way of the world,/ the simple, ordinary world, where things are/ sometimes too ordinary to matter. Sometimes,/ I close my eyes, so I donâ€™t have to see the world." By Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.]]></description>
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		<title>Quarter to War</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/quarter-to-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/jumoke-verissimo/" rel="tag">Jumoke Verissimo</a></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jumoke Verissimo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18354</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["The footfalls fading from the streets/ The trees departing from the avenues/ The sweat evaporating from the skin..." By Jumoke Verissimo.]]></description>
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		<title>Transgendered</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/transgendered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/jumoke-verissimo/" rel="tag">Jumoke Verissimo</a></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18356</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["Lagos is a chronicle of liquid geographies/ Swimming on every tongue..." By Jumoke Verissimo.]]></description>
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		<title>Sketches of my Mother</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/sketches-of-my-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/chika-unigwe/" rel="tag">Chika Unigwe</a></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chika Unigwe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18358</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["The mother of my memories was elegant. She would not step out of the house without her trademark red lipstick and perfect hair. She did not walk with slow steps as this stranger did..." By Chika Unigwe.]]></description>
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		<title>The Way of Meat</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/the-way-of-meat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/nana-ekua-brew-hammond/" rel="tag">Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond</a></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iryna Lialko]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18369</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["Every dayâ€”any dayâ€”any one of us could be picked out for any reason, and we would be... Weâ€™d part like hair, pushing into the walls of our containment area, then alternately cry, call, or sigh when the farmhand wrestled his pick off the floor." By Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond.]]></description>
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		<title>Between Two Worlds</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/between-two-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/amma-darko/" rel="tag">Amma Darko</a></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amma Darko]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18379</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["Ursula spotted the three black students immediately. Everyone did. They could not be missed because they kept to themselves and apart from the rest...." Excerpted from â€˜Between Two Worldsâ€™, by Amma Darko.]]></description>
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		<title>Talking Gender</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/talking-gender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Silkstone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iryna Lialko]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sana Hussain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18382</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["In fact it is often through the uninformed use of such words that language becomes a tool in perpetuating sexism and violence against women in society." Sana Hussain on gender and language.]]></description>
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		<title>Unmasking Female Circumcision</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/unmasking-female-circumcision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Silkstone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18385</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["Though the origins of the practice are unknown, many medical historians believe that FGM dates back to at least 2,000 years." Gimel Samera looks at the brutality of FGM.]]></description>
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		<title>Not Just A Phase</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/not-just-a-phase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Grierson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18387</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["...in the workplace, a person can practically be forced out of their job by discrimination, taking numerous days off for fear of their physical safety and mental wellbeing." Aaron Grierson confronts prejudice against bisexuality.]]></description>
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		<title>The Birth of Bigotry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Amir</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journal.themissingslate.com/?post_type=article&#038;p=18389</guid>
				<description><![CDATA["The psychology of prejudice demands that we are each our own moral police". Maria Amir on the roots of bigotry and intolerance.]]></description>
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		<title>The Score</title>
		<link>https://journal.themissingslate.com/article/the-score/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 12:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="https://journal.themissingslate.com/byline/hawa-golakai/" rel="tag">Hawa Golakai</a></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA["The person on the floor was unmistakeably dead. It looked like a woman; she couldnâ€™t be sure yet..." By Hawa Jande Golakai.]]></description>
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