Cultural Literature
AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
Although much has been written about the African Diaspora in the Atlantic Ocean, the Diaspora in the Indian Ocean is virtually unrecognized. Concerned with Africans, who lived south of the Sahara and were dispersed by free will or forcefully to...
$29.95
FIGURES IN A DANCE: THE THEATER OF W.B. YEATS AND WOLE SOYINKA
The correlation between the sensibility and the environment of an artist has been pivotal to critical debate for centuries and will continue to be so as long as the creative impulse and its expression remains an inexorable fact of life....
$25.05
BLUES IN BLACK AND WHITE
The ever-engaging work of the controversial Afro-German activist/writer, May Ayim, covers a fascinating range of themes: biography, politics, love as well as the absurdities of everyday life. Her unique ability to passionately transform diverse subject matters into poetic language is...
$21.95
LEISURE IN URBAN AFRICA
In this fascinating study, an interdisciplinary team of scholars reflect on the complex conceptions, creation, and consumption of leisure in African cities from the nineteenth century to the present. Collectively, they bring together often unconnected modes of analysis, research, and...
$29.95
AFROCENTRIC THOUGHT AND PRAXIS: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY (PB) (COMING SOON)
This book aims to show that the intellectual and activist/transformationist tradition of African people all over the world is a composite one, which transcends geographical, religious, language, and other apparent differences. Furthermore, this book explains that this composite African intellectual...
$21.95
AFROCENTRIC THOUGHT AND PRAXIS: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Gray, Cecil Conteen
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr (December 1, 2002)
Language : English
Paperback : 204 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865438250
ISBN-13 : 978-0865438255
Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
Dimensions : 4.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
$35.97
CONFRONTING AIDS EPIDEMIC (CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON HIV/AIDS EDUCATION)
This is an anthology of articles that focus on various aspects of the dreaded AIDS disease. The articles is written by scholars of various relevant disciplines, who seek to create greater public awareness and understanding of AIDS and thereby contribute...
$24.79
LAST CAMEL (THE): Stories About Somalia (AVAILABLE IN HB ONLY)
The Last Camel: True Stories About Somalia
Product details
Publisher : Red Sea Pr (May 1, 1997)
Language : English
Hardcover : 230 pages
ISBN-10 : 156902040X
ISBN-13 : 978-1569020401
Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
$59.95
NGUGI WA THIONG'O: TEXTS & CONTEXTS
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: Text and Contexts
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr; y First printing edition (December 1, 1995)
Language : English
Paperback : 390 pages
ISBN-10 : 086543445X
ISBN-13 : 978-0865434455
Item Weight : 1.32 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
$33.00
AFRICAN CULTURE: THE RHYTHMS OF UNITY
Africa, according to the contributors to this anthology, is "one cultural river with numerous tributaries articulated by their specific responses to history and the environment." They concentrate on the similarities in behavior, perceptions, and technologies of African culture that tie...
$21.95
COMMON GROUND: A Comparison of the Ideas of Consciousness in the Writings of Howard W. Thurman and Huey P. Newton
This study examines the idea of consciousness as a phenomenal reality in the writings of Howard W. Thurman and Huey P. Newton. The purpose was to determine if there was confluence in the relationship between their usage of consciousness as...
$24.95
CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION AND AFRICAN LITERATURE
"The papers for this volume were all delivered at the 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association held in Morgantown, West Virginia." Product details Publisher : Red Sea Press,U.S.; UK ed. edition (April 26, 2016) Language : English Paperback : 280 pages...
$34.95
CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION AND AFRICAN LITERATURE
"The papers for this volume were all delivered at the 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association held in Morgantown, West Virginia." Product details Publisher : Red Sea Press,U.S.; UK ed. edition (April 26, 2016) Language : English Paperback : 280 pages...
$34.95
Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure & Folk Magic from Appalachia
In Backwoods Witchcraft, Jake Richards offers up a folksy stew of family stories, lore, omens, rituals, and conjure crafts that he learned from his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his grandfather, a Baptist minister who Jake remembers could "rid someone of a...
$18.95
Kintu
The breathtaking debut from the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 'A soaring and sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told.' (Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning author...
$19.99
A Girl Is A Body of Water (Available June 15,2021)
"Makumbi’s prose is irresistible and poignant, with remarkable wit, heart and charm―poetic and nuanced, brilliant and sly, openhearted and cunning, balancing discordant truths in wise ruminations." ―The New York Times Book Review "A mesmerizing feminist epic." ―O, the Oprah Magazine...
$17.95
Chains (PB)
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City...
$8.99
Black Futures (ONE WORLD)
Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more—to tell the story of the radical, imaginative, provocative, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today. The...
$40.00
CITY KID: A WRITER'S MEMOIR OF GHETTO LIFE AND POST-SOUL SUCCESS
Traces the author's rise from a youth spent in Brooklyn's Brownsville housing project to a Grammy Award winner and two-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, in an account that describes his early family life, the pop culture that inspired...
$25.95
MAKE IT PLAIN: STANDING UP AND SPEAKING OUT
Black Americans have always relied on the oral tradition -- storytelling, preaching, and speechmaking -- to assert their rights and preserve and pass on their history and culture. In the pulpit, courtroom, or cotton field, they have understood the power...
$16.99