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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
$19.99 Read moreA powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of t… [more below]
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703219
- Language: English
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Between Good and Evil: The Stolen Girls of Boko Haram
$29.99 Read moreA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“This work is important and astonishing, but it is also a riveting read.” –Louise Penny, author of A World of Curiosities and the Inspector Gamache novels
Behind the Beautiful For
- Author: Fung, Mellissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 144345608X
- Language: English
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Origins of the Syma Species
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu’s collection is a brief history of where he came from: Syma, a neg
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Oburumu, Tares
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496237021
- Language: English
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Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night
$24.00 Add to cartSallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their Gullah culture. Although technology and development were slow in coming to Daufu… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Sallie Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0807858439
- Language: English
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The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power
$65.00 Add to cartThe African Gaze is a comprehensive exploration of postcolonial and contemporary photography and cinema from Africa. Drawing from archival imagery and documents, interviews with the photographers and
- Author: Sall, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0500025398
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh
$22.00 Add to cartComposed over 2,500 years, lost in the deserts of Iraq for 2,000 more, Gilgamesh presents a palimpsest of ancient Middle Eastern cultic and courtly lyrics and lore. The story of a visionary journey be
- Author: Kendall, Stuart T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0983697205
- Language: English
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The Threshold: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt’s premier poet.
Iman Mersal is Egypt’s–indeed, the Arab world’s–great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voi- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607850
- Language: English
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Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems
$16.00 Read moreIn Ghana’s Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola’s rhapsodic debut, the in
- Author: Abimbola, Kweku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452278
- Language: English
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The Food of Morocco
$60.00 Add to cartWinner of the James Beard Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award
“A cookbook by Paula Wolfert is cause for celebration. Ms. Wolfert may be America’s most knowledgeable food person and her books are fu
- Author: Wolfert, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0061957550
- Language: English
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It’s a Continent: Unravelling Africa’s History One Country at a Time
$21.99 Read more‘. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It’
- Author: Ukata, Chinny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1529376785
- Language: English
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Your Crib, My Qibla
$17.95 Add to cartDerek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner
Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language ab
Julie Suk Award Winner
Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Dzukogi, Saddiq
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496225775
- Language: English
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Deluge
$17.00 Add to cart“To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge… Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma.” –Nao… [more below]
- Author: Chatti, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595891
- Language: English
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Afro-Atlantic Histories
$49.95 Add to cartA colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries
Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum
Afro-Atlantic Histories brings toge- Author: Pedrosa, Adriano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1636810020
- Language: English
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African Art
$29.95 Add to cartThe art of the Fang, the BaTeke, the BaKota, and other African peoples is extraordinarily vigorous and shows a brilliant sense of form. The substantial aesthetic impact that their works have had on th… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Willett, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: February 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0500203644
- Language: English
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Refractive Africa
$16.95 Read more“The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpe… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230279
- Language: English
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Teff Love
$24.95 Read moreFor those unfamiliar with Ethiopian cooking, Kittee Berns is on a mission to demystify these delicous dishes, ibreaking through language and cultural barriers to show how these foods are traditionally… [more below]
- Author: Berns, Kittee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 157067311X
- Language: English
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Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartA bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures
Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diak
- Author: Diaka, Ama Asantewa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0063092921
- Language: English
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African Artists: From 1882 to Now
$69.95 Add to cartAs featured in the New York Times, ARTnews, Colossal, Metropolis and New York Magazine’s The Strategist
A groundbreaking A-Z survey of the work of over 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based
- Author: Phaidon Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 183866243X
- Language: English
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Mine Mine Mine
$17.95 Add to cartMine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetic… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Phalafala, Uhuru Portia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235150
- Language: English
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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
$17.99 Add to cartCairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents’ belle 駱oque mansion by the Nile, t… [more below]
- Author: Rossant, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0743475615
- Language: English
