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This inspired collection of stories is cause for celebration. With stunning language and dazzling characters, Toure introduces Soul City -- a wholly imagined utopia where magic happens and black is beautiful. In a broad range of characterization and styles, The Portable Promised Land is filled with lighthearted humor and heavyhearted issues. Toure challenges form and what's considered politically correct in stories like The Sad, Sweet Story of Sugar Lips Shinehot and Afrolexicolgy: Today's Bi-Annual List of the Top 50 Words in African America. The Portable Promised Land marks the entrance of a new and wildly compelling voice to fiction.

Not since the dawn of the music video has pop music undergone a pioneering effort as exciting as this. In LIT RIFFS, America's latest generation of celebrated storytellers joins a list of the most world-renowned rock critics in composing a unique anthology. The anthology consists of fiction, non-fiction, and free-form riffs based on the writer's reaction to the songs that have inspired us all. The book features contributions from Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, Jennifer Belle, Lisa Tucker, Greil Marcus, Rebecca Wells, Nelson George and many more. This is the first book with it's own soundtrack and readers will be able to listen to it, thanks to a CD from Manhattan Records that will be distributed simultaneously. Taking both the written word and the sung lyric to new places, LIT RIFFS is a revolutionary medium from some of today's most influential young talents.

Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock ''n'' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic with his story "Maggie May," about a wholly unexpected connection between an impressionable young man and an aging, alcoholic hooker, the diverse, electrifying stories here use songs as a springboard for a form dubbed the lit riff. Alongside Bangs''s classic work, you''ll find stories by J.T. LeRoy, who puts a recovering teenage drug abuser in a dentist''s chair with nothing but the Foo Fighters''s "Everlong" -- blaring through the P.A. -- to fight the pain; Jonathan Lethem, whose narrator looks back on his lost innocence just as an extramarital affair careens to an end -- this to the tune "Speeding Motorcycle" as recorded by Yo La Tengo; and Jennifer Belle, who envisions a prequel to Paul Simon''s "Graceland" -- one that takes place at a children''s birthday party replete with a real live kangaroo. With original contributions from Tom Perrotta, Nelson George, Amanda Davis, Lisa Tucker, Aimee Bender, Darin Strauss, and many more -- riffing on everyone from Tom Waits and Bruce Springsteen to the White Stripes, Cat Power, and Bob Marley -- this is both an astounding collection of short stories and an extraordinary experiment in words and music. Soundtrack available from Saturation Acres Music & Recording Co.

In this provocative book, writer, and cultural critic Touré explores the concept of Post-Blackness: the ability for someone to be rooted in but not restricted by their race. Touré begins his book by examining the concept of “Post-Blackness,” a term that defines artists who are proud to be Black, but don''t want to be limited by identity politics and boxed in by race. He soon discovers that the desire to be rooted in but not constrained by Blackness is everywhere. In Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? he argues that Blackness is infinite, that any identity imaginable is Black, and that all expressions of Blackness are legitimate. Here, Touré divulges his own intimate, funny, and painful experiences of how race and racial expectations have shaped his life. He explores how the concept of Post-Blackness functions in politics, society, psychology, art, culture, and more. He knew he could not tackle this topic all on his own so he turned to 105 of the most important luminaries of our time for frank and thought-provoking opinions, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Perry, Harold Ford Jr., Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon, Paul Mooney, New York Governor David Paterson, Greg Tate, Aaron McGruder, Soledad O''Brien, Kamala Harris, Chuck D, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and many others. By engaging this brilliant, eclectic group, and employing his signature insight, courage, and wit, Touré delivers a clarion call on race in America and how we can change our perceptions for a better future. Destroying the notion that there is a correct way of being Black, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? will change how we perceive race forever.

An expansive and insightful exploration of one of the most iconic and electrifying artists ever, this book reveals the stunning, multi-generational influence and appeal of Prince and his revered music—from celebrated journalist, author, and host of the popular podcast The Touré Show.Infused with Touré’s unique pop-culture fluency, I Would Die 4 U is as passionate and radical as its subject matter. Building on his lifelong admiration for Prince’s oeuvre and interviews with those closest to the late artist, including band members, his tour manager, and music and Bible scholars, Touré deconstructs the life and work of the enigmatic icon who has been both a reflective mirror of and inspirational force for America. By defying traditional categories of race, gender, and sexuality, but also presenting a very conventional conception of religion and God, Prince was a man of profound contradictions. He spoke in the language of 60s pop and soul to a generation fearing Cold War apocalypse and the crack and AIDS epidemic, while simultaneously being both an MTV megastar and a religious evangelist. He creatively blended his songs with images of sex and profanity to invite us into a musical conversation about the healing power of God and religion. By demystifying Prince as a man, an artist, and a cultural force, I Would Die 4 U shows us how he impacted and defined a generation.

An expansive and insightful Prince biography and cultural study of one of the most iconic and electrifying artists ever, this book reveals the stunning, multi-generational influence and appeal of Prince and his revered music—from celebrated journalist, author, and host of the popular podcast The Touré Show.Infused with Touré’s unique pop-culture fluency, I Would Die 4 U is as passionate and radical as its subject matter. Building on his lifelong admiration for Prince’s oeuvre and interviews with those closest to the late artist, including band members, his tour manager, and music and Bible scholars, Touré deconstructs the life and work of the enigmatic music icon who has been both a reflective mirror of and inspirational force for America. By defying traditional categories of race, gender, and sexuality, but also presenting a very conventional conception of religion and God, Prince was a man of profound contradictions. He spoke in the language of 1960s pop and soul to a generation fearing Cold War apocalypse and the crack and AIDS epidemic, while simultaneously being both an MTV megastar and a religious evangelist. He creatively blended his songs with images of sex and profanity to invite us into a musical conversation about the healing power of God and religion. By demystifying Prince as a man, an artist, and a cultural force, I Would Die 4 U shows us how he impacted and defined a Generation X.

Entre glace et brulures, ce recueil est une traversee des emotions humaines, un miroir tendu a nos fragilites, nos reves et nos combats. Chaque texte agit comme une confidence, une blessure mise a nu ou un pansement pose sur l'ame.A travers cinquante analyses sensibles et profondes, l'auteur explore deux grands horizons de notre existence. Dans Sentiments, societe & conscience, il sonde les elans du c ur et les fractures du monde : l'amour, le mariage, l'amitie, la femme, l'enfant, mais aussi la culpabilite, la peur du pouvoir, les desillusions sociales et l'echec des revolutions. Des themes universels qui interrogent notre humanite et eveillent la conscience collective.Avec Engagement, spiritualite & choix, la reflexion s'elargit aux grandes questions de sens et de destinee. Entre tradition et pouvoir, quete du bonheur, liberte d'expression, foi, revolte et responsabilite individuelle, ces textes invitent chacun a regarder en lui-meme et a interroger sa place dans le monde.Intime et universel, personnel et politique, visible et spirituel, ce livre est une parole libre qui ose dire les douleurs, les espoirs et les contradictions de notre temps.

Dans un contexte africain marque par la decentralisation et les exigences croissantes du developpement local, ce livre analyse avec rigueur les mecanismes de financement des collectivites territoriales au Mali. Malgre la reconnaissance constitutionnelle de l'autonomie financiere des entites locales, celles-ci demeurent confrontees a une insuffisance chronique de ressources propres, a une faible capacite de recouvrement fiscal et a une forte dependance vis-a-vis de l'Etat central.S'appuyant sur une analyse juridique, institutionnelle et financiere approfondie, l'ouvrage met en lumiere les limites structurelles des systemes fiscaux locaux et l'impact des controles administratifs sur la capacite d'investissement des collectivites territoriales. Il explore egalement les desequilibres entre depenses de fonctionnement et depenses d'investissement, frein majeur a un developpement territorial durable.Au-dela du constat, l'auteur propose des pistes innovantes pour renforcer la mobilisation des ressources locales : amelioration du systeme fiscal, mecanismes de solidarite financiere, partenariats public-prive et diversification des sources de financement. Cette reflexion offre ainsi un cadre analytique solide et des perspectives operationnelles pour repenser le financement du developpement local au Mali et, plus largement, dans les Etats africains francophones engages dans la decentralisation.

Ce premier livre ouvre une porte.Celle des questions que beaucoup portent, mais que peu osent formuler.Il parle de jeunesse, d'identite, de reves, de doutes, de colere parfois, d'espoir souvent.Il observe le monde tel qu'il est vecu, pas tel qu'il est raconte.Sans donner de lecons, il met des mots sur des realites familieres et invite a s'arreter, reflechir, ecrire, repondre.Ce livre n'explique pas la vie. Il la questionne.

La constitution d'une societe commerciale dans le droit OHADA ne se concoit pas sans apport des associes. L'acte uniforme relatif au droit des societes commerciales et du groupement d'interet economique prevoit trois types d'apports, regroupes en deux categories : les apports en capital et l'apport en industrie. Ce dernier ne beneficie, paradoxalement, pas de la meme attention que les autres types d'apports. L'analyse du regime juridique de l'apport en industrie revele un apport devalorise et marginalise. Ce paradigme doit etre questionne et probablement reconsidere parce que bien qu'ayant un caractere immateriel, l'apport en industrie merite un meilleur sort que celui qui lui est reserve par le legislateur communautaire. Cet ouvrage propose une approche innovante du regime juridique de l'apport en industrie et concourt a la construction d'une theorie refondatrice.