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Scatterlings
$26.99 Add to cartA BEST NEW BOOK from *Vanity Fair *The Root *Vulture *People *The Washington Post *Christian Science Monitor *Los Angeles Times *Essence
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Pick! A New Yorker
- Author: Manenzhe, Resoketswe Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063264110
- Language: English
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All Your Children, Scattered
$18.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE 2023 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PRIX ﾉTHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS DE LA FRANCOPHONIE
Beata Umubyeyi
- Author: Umubyeyi Mairesse, Beata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457854
- Language: English
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A Kind of Madness
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut
Finalist for Caine Prize For African Writing An Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Book of 2024 “Steady-handed and gut-punching. I’m in awe.”- Author: Okonkwo, Uche
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030388
- Language: English
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Patience Is a Subtle Thief
$18.99 Add to cartHope and circumstance define a young woman’s life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria, from an exciting and fresh voice in global literature.
For as
- Author: Ishola-Ayodeji, Abi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0063116928
- Language: English
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Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology
$21.99 Add to cartMothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology is the first anthology of stories set in a fictional shared world based on a blend of African cultural worldviews. Edited by Locus award nominated editor Wole T
- Author: Talabi, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1958121606
- Language: English
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Scatterlings
$18.99 Add to cartIn 1927 South Africa, when the Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in t… [more below]
- Author: Manenzhe, Resoketswe Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0063264129
- Language: English
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Ways of Dying
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the M-Net Book Prize
In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda’s acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a professional mourner in a vast and violent city of the new South
Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards- Author: Mda, Zakes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420919
- Language: English
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Under Our Skin
$18.00 Add to cart1570. A street teems with activity in Renaissance Lisbon: boatmen unload passengers as jugglers entertain the crowd and vendors hawk their goods. The crowd is large, and more than half of it is Black.
- Author: Soutar, Jethro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1951213521
- Language: English
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The Quality of Mercy
$19.95 Add to cartWinner, Outstanding Fiction Book Prize, Zimbabwe National Arts Merit Awards
Shortlist, 2023 Sunday Times Literary Awards
Best African Books of 2023, African Arguments
From 2022 Windham Campbell Prize wi… [more below]
- Author: Ndlovu, Siphiwe Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1946395862
- Language: English
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An African Night’s Entertainment
$14.99 Add to cart‘Put your money on this sheepskin, ‘ said the old man, ‘and if, by the time I finish my tale, there is one of you awake, that man shall claim everything we have collected.’ Follow this tale of love, d
- Author: Ekwensi, Cyprian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 196061102X
- Language: English
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Mount Pleasant
$26.99 Add to cartA majestic tale of colonialism and transformation, Patrice Nganang’s Mount Pleasant tells the astonishing story of the birth of modern Cameroon, a place subject to the whims of the French and the Germ
- Author: Nganang, Patrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118417
- Language: English
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Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories
$27.99 Read more“I couldn’t put this book down and I loved spending time in the lives of Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape. Truly this book will grab hold of your heart and mind and everything in between.”–Roxane Gay,
- Author: Ogunyemi, Omolola Ijeoma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063117045
- Language: English
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Beasts of No Nation
$16.99 Add to cart“Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocenc
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Iweala, Uzodinma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0060798688
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
$12.00 Add to cartRestoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This Pengui
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Behn, Aphra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0140439889
- Language: English
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Woman of the Ashes
$17.00 Add to cartThe first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa’s most important writers
Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani- Series: Sands of the Emperor #1
- Author: Couto, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1250309298
- Language: English
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Waiting for the Barbarians
$16.00 Add to cartA modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
For decades the Magist- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 29 1982
- ISBN10: 014006110X
- Language: English
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Africa: The Definitive Visual History of a Continent
$50.00 Add to cartImmerse yourself in Africa’s vast and intricate story and discover Africa’s true place in world history.
Spanning more than 200,000 years, from the emergence of the first humans to the rise of megacit- Series: DK Definitive Visual Histories
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0744060109
- Language: English
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Akissi: More Tales of Mischief: Akissi Book 2
$14.99 Add to cartThe plucky, troublemaking Akissi is back with her mischief on The Ivory Coast! This time, she has to keep herself from drowning, stand up to a bully, make peace with her arch nemesis–the prettiest gi… [more below]
- Author: Abouet, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1912497174
- Language: English
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Nic Bishop Elephants
$19.99 Read moreSibert Medalist and naturalist Nic Bishop explores the world’s largest land animal — the ELEPHANT!
Few animals are more impressive than elephants. They are by far the biggest of all land animals. And
- Author: Bishop, Nic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0545605806
- Language: English
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The Stone Virgins
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult Fiction
An uncompromising novel by one of Africa’s premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting prose In 1980, after decad- Author: Yvonne, Vera
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0374528942
- Language: English
