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Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara

Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara

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In December 1880 a French expedition attempted to map a route for a railway that would stretch from their colony in Algeria right across the Sahara desert to reach their...
Faces of Africa

Faces of Africa

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"I try to read people's lives," says photographer Mario Marino. In this new photo book, the Austrian-born camera artist presents over 220 colour and black-and-white photographs from some of the...
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic

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Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and...
The Babylon Plot (Joe Mason, Book 4)

The Babylon Plot (Joe Mason, Book 4)

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'Five-star turbo-charged, non-stop action thriller... It reads like a movie reel... Needs to be on every thrill seeker's reading list' NetGalley review ?????Don't miss the next instalment of the Joe...
Travelling Wild: Trekking the Sahara

Travelling Wild: Trekking the Sahara

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Travelling Wild: Trekking the Sahara Desert follows a traveller on a fictitious journey by foot, camel and 4x4 across the world's largest dry desert. It uses the information you would...
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...
Ghost Season

Ghost Season

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With supreme skill and reverence, capturing shards, stillness and chaos, Fatin Abbas delivers a novel that gallops close and parallel to current events in Sudan.A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel...
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...
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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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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City of Blood Revisited

City of Blood Revisited

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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,...
Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya

Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya

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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...
The Conquest Of The Niger By Land And Sea: From The Early Explorers And Pioneer Steamships To Elder Dempster And Company

The Conquest Of The Niger By Land And Sea: From The Early Explorers And Pioneer Steamships To Elder Dempster And Company

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Explorers Eye: First Hand Accounts of Adventure & Exploration

Explorers Eye: First Hand Accounts of Adventure & Exploration

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Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

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African Dawn

African Dawn

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Maalika: My Life Among the Afar Nomads of Africa

Maalika: My Life Among the Afar Nomads of Africa

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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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Beyond Mombasa

Beyond Mombasa

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Cultural Treasures of the Ancient World

Cultural Treasures of the Ancient World

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Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

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Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness explores...
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...