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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...
Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa

Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa

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Format: Hardback, 225mm x 280mm, 1580g, 320 pagesPublished: Editions Flammarion, France, 1995Substantial catalogue produced to accompany the Whitechapel Gallery's 1995 exhibition, Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa. Conceived by...
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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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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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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Ife: In The History Of West African Sculpture

Ife: In The History Of West African Sculpture

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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...
Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

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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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Operation Certain Death

Operation Certain Death

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Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

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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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In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future

In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future

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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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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...
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (Vintage Voyages)

Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (Vintage Voyages)

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Author: Tim Butcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind A compulsively readable...
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...