Cultural Literature
Another Country
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions—sexual, racial, political, artistic—that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender...
$16.95
Deacon King Kong
One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"Oprah's Book Club PickNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME MagazineA Washington Post Notable NovelFrom the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the...
$17.00
What's Mine and Yours
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!"A once-every-few-years reading experience."—Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes"Coster portrays her characters’ worlds with startling vitality. As the children fall in lust and love, grapple with angst and battle the tides...
$28.00
LITERARY SUDANS: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan,
This anthology of literatures from Sudan and South Sudan will one day be appreciated as essential to our understanding of these people's rich history. A wonderful gift to be remembered for its timeliness. --NURUDDIN FARAH Author of the Return to...
$34.95
Deliverance: A Tale of Colliding Passions and the Muse of Forgiveness, A Historical Novel, by Bereket Habte Selassie
This is a novel based on the recent history of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The principal characters of the novel are former participants in the revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, a period marked by a generation s uprising against the...
$34.95
MINES OF HIS MIND: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE WORKS OF TAYO OLAFIOYE
Owonibi This book contains a rich deposit of ideas and the consequent social commentary that arise in the complete works of Tayo Olafioye in prose, verse and critical formats. By associating Olafioye s work with a mine, the editors hope...
$29.95
NEW WOMEN'S WRITING IN AFRICAN LITERATURE #24
African women writers have come a long way from the sixties when they were hardly acknowledged or noticed as serious writers. In the past four decades, their works have been steadily rising in quantity and quality. Today these writers are...
$21.95
NORTH-SOUTH LINKAGES AND CONNECTIONS IN CONTINENTAL AND DIASPORA AFRICAN LITERATURES
This volume collects some of the best presentations offered at the African Literature Associations 25th annual conference held in 1999. The conference venue--Fez, Morocco--was an apt setting for the conferences theme: "Continental North-South and Diaspora Linkages and Connections," sitting on...
$34.95
BEING BLACK BEING HUMAN
In this follow-up to his first volume, On Black Culture, Femi Ojo-Ade continues his in-depth explication and exploration of black essence and experience, primarily through literature, as well as through socio-political events and personal actions and interactions. He discusses a...
$29.99
MIDDLE PASSAGE (THE): 105 DAYS
In The Middle Passage: 105 Days, Estella Conwill Majozo delves into the awesome voyage of her captured ancestors. Many accounts of the Middle Passage have been verbalized and visualized through fiction and non-fiction, such as Charles Johnson's Middle Passage and...
$14.95
IN THE KINGDOM OF SONGS
Africa World Pr. Hardcover.
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (October 1, 2002)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0865439397
ISBN-13 : 978-0865439399
Item Weight : 1.74 pounds
$59.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVE ON NURUDDIN FARAH (COMING SOON)
This is the first critical anthology on the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah, winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Farah is one of Africas most multilingual and multiliterate writers. In exile from his country since 1974, he has...
$55.00
INVINCIBLE SUMMER (AN): FEMALE DIASPOREAN AUTHORS
The title of this book, An Invincible Summer, is taken from the essay "Return to Tipasa" by Albert Camus. At the age of forty, Camus returned to the rain-drenched Algiers, "the city of summer," in order to experience again the...
$21.95
ALMAJIRI: NEW AFRICAN POETRY (COMING SOON)
This collection of poems explores the voices of Almajiri, the street beggar-poet, among the Hausa/Fulani and the Yoruba in Nigeria. It addresses contemporary local and global issues and expresses the challenges within Nigerias socio-economic world, its resources, and culture. Urgent...
$16.95
GOLDEN CAGE:REGENARATION IN LUSOPHONE AFRICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Golden Cage: Regeneration in Lusophone African Literature and Culture
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (April 1, 1999)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865437394
ISBN-13 : 978-0865437395
Item Weight : 13.3 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
$19.96
CEMETERY OF MIND: A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY THE CELEBRATED ZIMBABWEAN NOVELIST DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
This is a book of poems by Dambudzo Marechera, representing the whole spectrum of the young writer's growing literary maturity. The poems sparkle with Marechera's unique wit, always quickened by his uncanny ability to use language to subvert all conventional...
$20.00
BANKING IN AFRICA (PB) (COMING SOON)
This text has a strong focus on the problems of restructuring of banking institutions and the management of the bad and non-performing assets of public sector institutions in Africa. North America: Africa World Press; Botswana: IDPA; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya:...
$27.77
BEATING A RESTLESS DRUM: THE POETICS OF KAMAU BRATHWAITE DEREK WALCOTT
June Bobb explores the different ways the Anglophone Caribbean's most important poets engage in rewriting history and re-conceiving a visionary world in which it becomes possible to reconnect the fragments of a past destroyed or denied by the Caribbean's confrontation...
$24.95
BEATING A RESTLESS DRUM: THE POETICS OF KAMAU BRATHWAITE DEREK WALCOTT
June Bobb explores the different ways the Anglophone Caribbean's most important poets engage in rewriting history and re-conceiving a visionary world in which it becomes possible to reconnect the fragments of a past destroyed or denied by the Caribbean's confrontation...
$410.58
CARRYING KNOWLEDGE UP A PALM TREE (PB)
Carrying Knowledge Up a Palm Tree: Poetry
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (January 1, 1998)
Language : English
Paperback : 100 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865435944
ISBN-13 : 978-0865435940
Item Weight : 5.7 ounces
Dimensions : 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
$15.09