Fiction
HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DESPAIR: A NOVELIST'S CURES FOR AFRICA
This book examines Ayi Kwei Armahs five novels: The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Fragments (1969), Two Thousand Seasons (1973), The Healers (1973), and Osiris Rising (1995).Drawing on a thorough discussion of the five novels, the book probes...
$24.95
LAYLA AN EGYPTIAN WOMAN
Layla, An Egyptian Woman
Product details
Publisher : Red Sea Pr (October 31, 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 157 pages
ISBN-10 : 1569022216
ISBN-13 : 978-1569022214
Item Weight : 8.2 ounces
Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.25 x 8 inches
$19.95
FROM OUR MOTHERS HEART
This collection of Bukusu folktales and proverbs provides a cultural heritage. The prologue includes a brief history and gender politics within the community. Earlier historical accounts draw heavily on oral narratives and legends. "Bukusu" is both a eulogist and descriptive...
$25.95
MYTH, HISTORY AND SOCIETY: THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ADIELE AFIGBO
The basic idea in this book is that Nigerian historians, indeed historians of Africa, have from the birth of the new African historiography seen and pursued historical studies and historical writing as part of the larger effort to create, consolidate...
$39.95
LOSS OF EMPIRE: LEGAL LYNCHING, VIGILANTISM, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
“Providing a detailed, scholarly connection among the institutionalization of lynching, capital punishment, the escalation of the imprisonment of Black youth, and the imprisonment of Black political activists, Loss of Empire presents an intellectual and political challenge to Black public intellectuals...
$19.95
CLOTHES OF NAKEDNESS
Into a poor, if jovial, world of a group of friends descends the intriguing and dapper Mystique Mysterious bearing attractive offers of a better life. Embracing him is to fall prey to his diabolical machinations; however, those that dare challenge...
$21.95
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
CREOLE EXPERIMENT (A): UTOPIAN SPACE IN KAMAU BRATHWAITE'S "VIDEO STYLE" WORKS (COMING SOON)
Kamau Brathwaite s writing covers a whole range of creative expression. The most distinctive is his now well known Sycorax video style . Its experiment with different font sizes and layouts not only challenges the limits of the text but...
$55.00
CONSTRUCTING INCEST STORIES:BLACK WOMEN'S VOICES IN FACT AND FICTION
Constructing Incest Stories: Black Women s Voices in Fact and Fiction provides a highly original perspective on incest by an illuminating fusion of social science research and literary analysis. It provides a variety of truths about incest, as narrated both...
$24.95
EARLY WEST AFRICAN WRITERS: AMOS TUTUOLA CYPRIAN EKWENSI & AYI KWEI ARMAH
This book focuses on the first works produced by three talented West Africans who felt an urge to express themselves in print. These creative individuals were pioneers in a literary movement that gathered force and swept across Africa with remarkable...
$29.95
OBAMA PHENOMENON: ESSAYS AND POETRY BY BLACK CRITICS AND CREATIVE ARTISTS
Edited by internationally recognized scholar on black literatures and cultures, Femi Ojo-Ade, this volume brings together a mixture of young intellectuals and seasoned scholars from Africa and its Diaspora to address various themes of the Obama phenomenon, all from an...
$29.95
EKUA: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A GIRL
Ekua: A Year in the Life of a Girl is a coming-of-age narrative of an eight-year-old Ghanaian girl who lives with an abusive guardian, Mrs. Addo, while her parents are in the United States. Because of the physical, mental, and...
$15.00
MARKETS OF MEMORIES Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational
Markets of Memories combines the analysis of rhetorical (and dialectical) structures and the exploration of contact zones (and their power dynamic). In effect, the book explores the movement of history, and its interpretive narratives, from two related perspectives the postcolonial...
$29.11
LEGACY OF PHANTOMS A NOVEL
Standing as a powerful metaphor for Africa's socio-political past and present, Kwakye's novel relates the internal battles of the twin Kakra as he struggles to come to terms with a past so jarring that he is only able to recall...
$21.51
GLOBALIZED PALESTINE The National Sell-Out of a Homeland
This book is about how truncated, distorted, and mythologized the official claim of Palestinian development is, and has become. Basically, this book is about the role of an informal tri-partite coalition of (1) Palestinian capitalists-political elite, (2) Palestinian developmental NGOs,...
$29.95
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
African Beliefs in the New World: Popular Literary Traditions of the Caribbean (COMING SOON)
Pradel, Lucie
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr (December 1, 2002)
Language : English
Hardcover : 290 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865437025
ISBN-13 : 978-0865437029
Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
$99.00
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
How Beautiful We Were
From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company. “A novel with the richness and power of a great contemporary fable, and a...
$28.00