Cultural Literature
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
CARRYING KNOWLEDGE UP A PALM TREE (HB)
This is an anthology of poems by Sudanese-born prolific writer and literary scholar, Taban lo Liyong. In the anthology lo Liyong focuses on wide ranging contemporary issues and subjects, drawing on his wealth of experience both as a seasoned intellectual...
$33.49
DAYBREAK IS NEAR
In Daybreak is Near...: Literature, Clans and the Nation-State in Somalia, Ali Jimale Ahmed examines the role literature has played in modern Somali society of the past half century. The writer examines Somali literature, both written and oral, to trace...
$15.99
LOADED VEHICLES: STUDIES IN AFRICAN LITERATURE
The essays gathered here explore the contribution of little magazines to the development of distinctive literary culture, by calling attention to unusual examples of small-scale publishing, and by scrutinizing stylistic innovations in pamphlets and newspapers aimed at a mass audience....
$20.40
Kofi and the Butterflies
After Kofi stops a bigger boy from capturing a rare butterfly for his collection, he is taken on a special visit to the kingdom of the butterflies.. Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (March 1, 1997) Language : English ISBN-10 : 0865435197...
$8.95
HIGHLIFE FOR CALIBAN
This "high life" in the poetry of Johnson's Sierra Leone Trilogy sets us up for the worlds of Caliban and Tarzan, of St. Augustine and Ophelia; Jane and Shylock; and of His Excellency, the politician. So, too, that of Freetown...
$11.03
HAND ON THE NAVEL
In this, the second volume of his Sierra Leone Trilogy, Lemuel Johnson gives voice to a half-forgotten piece of history, for the most part buried in footnotes and archives: The Royal West African Frontier Force which fought for the allies...
$12.67
Carnival of the Old Coast (African Writers Library)
The concern in Johnson's Sierra Leone Trilogy has been to return to, and re-frame, the years from the 1500s to the 1960s, and to do so by deploying con/texts in the Sierra Leone Krio heritage - with its remarkably elastic...
$10.11
ALL-WHITE WORLD OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
The All White World of Children's Books and African American Children's Literature Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (May 1, 1995) Language : English Paperback : 171 pages ISBN-10 : 0865434778 ISBN-13 : 978-0865434776 Item Weight : 10.9 ounces Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5...
$19.95
ECHOES ACROSS A THOUSAND HILLS
Book by Pegram, Amelia Blossom, Waldman, Selma
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Publisher : Africa World Pr; 1st Paperback Edition (January 1, 1995)
Language : English
Paperback : 103 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865434182
ISBN-13 : 978-0865434189
Item Weight : 5.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
$14.67
LONG DRUMS AND CANONS
Lindfors, Bernth
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Publisher : Africa World Pr; 1st edition (March 1, 1995)
Language : English
Paperback : 188 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865434379
ISBN-13 : 978-0865434370
Item Weight : 11.3 ounces
Dimensions : 6.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches
$18.73