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She was from the start an outsider, not just a woman in a nation whose leadership was dominated by men, but the daughter of a grocer.
FORBES: Margaret Thatcher, Revolutionary Leader
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Aminatta Forna is the daughter of a British mother and Sierra Leonean father who, while at medical school in Scotland, celebrated his nation's independence by puffing away on six cigarettes in one go.
ECONOMIST: African non-fiction
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There's also an article by reporter Hiroko Tashiro, former head of the parent-teacher association at a suburban Tokyo elementary school, on the anxieties that her daughter--and millions of Japanese schoolchildren--face in the nation's rigid education system.
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