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The Granta Book of the African Short Story

The Granta Book of the African Short Story

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The Granta Book of the African Short Story introduces a group of African writers described by its editor, Helon Habila, as 'the post-nationalist generation'. Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection...
The Living and the Rest

The Living and the Rest

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"The limitless possibilities of fiction are brilliantly utilised . . . Ingenious" Irish Times"Agualusa's funny and lively tale turns increasingly ominous ahead of an explosive conclusion" Guardian***A Financial Times Fiction...
Continental Shift: A Journey Into Africa's Changing Fortunes

Continental Shift: A Journey Into Africa's Changing Fortunes

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Africa is failing. Africa is rising. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, stupidity. African economies are soaring faster than any other on earth. Africa...
Abandon Ship!: The True World War II Story about the Sinking of the Laconia

Abandon Ship!: The True World War II Story about the Sinking of [...]

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On September 12, 1942, the RMS Laconia was attacked by a German submarine five hundred miles off the coast of western Africa. What the Germans didn't know was that they...
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement versus Donald J. Trump

Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African [...]

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A collection of writers, poets, artists, social entrepreneurs and political activists in the Global International African Arts Movement speak about their work in the context of Trump, giving a voice...
Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary)

Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary)

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In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son...
The Black Joy Project

The Black Joy Project

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Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork...
The New African Portraiture: The Shariat Collections

The New African Portraiture: The Shariat Collections

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Author: Florian SteiningerFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 280mm, 960g, 176 pagesPublished: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Germany, 2023This catalogue brings together leading figures from a generation of thrilling figurative artists of...
Memoria: Tales of a different History

Memoria: Tales of a different History

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Author: Nadine HounkpatinFormat: Paperback, 212mm x 246mm, 440g, 112 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2021Memoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad...
MTINDO: Style Movers Rebranding Africa

MTINDO: Style Movers Rebranding Africa

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Format: Hardback, 200mm x 260mm, 1030g, 208 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2017In Mtindo , award-winning photographer Daniele Tamagni captures a new young generation of creative minds - so-called "style movers" -...
The Blue Nile

The Blue Nile

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They Went to Bush

They Went to Bush

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Breaking the Maafa Chain

Breaking the Maafa Chain

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Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to America was an illegal but lucrative business.Nineteenth century-Two sisters,...
Through My African Eyes (SIGNED)

Through My African Eyes (SIGNED)

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Three Years' War

Three Years' War

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Africa View

Africa View

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The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River

The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River

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African Saga

African Saga

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Africa on the Tightrope

Africa on the Tightrope

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Kakuli (SIGNED)

Kakuli (SIGNED)

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Realm of the Evening Star

Realm of the Evening Star

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In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two

In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two

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Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One

In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One

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Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One

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Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion,...
The Mummy: A History of the Extraordinary Practices of Ancient Egypt

The Mummy: A History of the Extraordinary Practices of Ancient Egypt

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Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.

Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.

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Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...
Explorers Eye: First Hand Accounts of Adventure & Exploration

Explorers Eye: First Hand Accounts of Adventure & Exploration

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Fergus Fleming Format: Hardback...
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir

The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir

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A Prisoner in the Garden: Opening Nelson Mandela's Prison Archive

A Prisoner in the Garden: Opening Nelson Mandela's Prison Archive

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Cultural Treasures of the Ancient World

Cultural Treasures of the Ancient World

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Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know

Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture...
In Praise of Savagery

In Praise of Savagery

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Author: Warwick Cairns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One man's journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa. As a young man,...
Resistance, Rebellion & Revolt: How Slavery Was Overthrown

Resistance, Rebellion & Revolt: How Slavery Was Overthrown

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Author: Professor James Walvin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves -...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

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Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into...
The Black Pimpernel: Nelson Mandela on the Run

The Black Pimpernel: Nelson Mandela on the Run

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Author: Zukiswa Wanner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In March 1961, after giving a brief speech at a conference, Nelson Mandela vanished. For the next eighteen months...
Foreign Native: An African Journey

Foreign Native: An African Journey

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Author: RW Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable...
Anna Maria Falconbridge: Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the Years 1791-1792-1793

Anna Maria Falconbridge: Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the Years 1791-1792-1793

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Author: Christopher Fyfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative of Two Voyages, consisting of fourteen letters to a friend about her experiences, is the...
Roots

Roots

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Author: Alex Haley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins- a powerful memoir, a...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

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Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

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Author: Deborah Riley Draper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400  The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin...
Nelson Mandela: Little Guides to Great Lives

Nelson Mandela: Little Guides to Great Lives

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Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela's journey from political prisoner to president of South Africa is an incredible tale of...
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensA short history of everybody...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

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Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
Invisible Man

Invisible Man

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Author: Ralph Ellison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The lives of countless millions are evoked in Ralph Ellison's superb portrait of a generation of black Americans, Invisible...
Exile and the Kingdom: Stories

Exile and the Kingdom: Stories

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own...
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)

Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)

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Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...
In the Heart of the Country

In the Heart of the Country

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Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works, this second instalment of four titles-with introductions...
Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

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Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics...