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... to other people and difference from cockroaches, and how this “evolved,” from the early mid-twentieth century to the 1970s, in two stories: racing cockroaches on a dining room table, and racing motorcycles across hills of garbage. Constructing fragile lives against the apparent threats of socialism...

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... their sojourn in these neighboring countries as enhancing. Youth claim that they work hard at home but have little to show at the end of the year other than crops in their fields, whereas in Benin and Nigeria they return with money or a motorcycle. They also like the adventure and the freedom from familial...