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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...
Maya and the Lord of Shadows

Maya and the Lord of Shadows

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In the thrilling third and final book in the acclaimed Maya and the Rising Dark trilogy that Kirkus calls "truly #BlackGirlMagic," Maya must face off with the Lord of Shadows...
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...
Events of the Social: Portraiture and Collective Agency: African Photography from The Walther Collection

Events of the Social: Portraiture and Collective Agency: African Photography from The Walther Collection

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This book is a comprehensive investigation into photographic works by artists from the African continent and its diaspora. Taking the politics of the "colonial gaze" as its starting point, Events...
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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The Great Sahara

The Great Sahara

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Where Sixpence Lives

Where Sixpence Lives

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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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The Egypt Story: Its Art, Its Monuments, Its People, Its History

The Egypt Story: Its Art, Its Monuments, Its People, Its History

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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,...
Pyramids, Temples and Tombs of Ancient Egypt

Pyramids, Temples and Tombs of Ancient Egypt

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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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Merchant Prince Of Niger Delta

Merchant Prince Of Niger Delta

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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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The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands

The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands

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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: Aidan, 1965- Hartley Format:...
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,...
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...
The Rough Guide to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland (Travel Guide)

The Rough Guide to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland (Travel Guide)

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Author: Rough Guides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Discover South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland with the most incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan...
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...