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Mummy Eaters
$17.95 Add to cart2023 American Book Award
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Sherry Shenoda’s collection Mummy Eaters follows in the footsteps of a
2022 Longlist for the National Book Awards- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Shenoda, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232542
- Language: English
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Content Warning: Everything
$16.00 Add to cartThe first book of poems from an acclaimed young author, whose meteoric rise has already landed them on the cover of Time Magazine.
In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi-award-winning au… [more below]
- Author: Emezi, Akwaeke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596294
- Language: English
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War Songs
$17.00 Add to cartPoems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior
From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary war- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #41
- Author: Shadd?d, ?antarah Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 147985879X
- Language: English
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Exhale Again: A Self Care Coloring Book with Affirmations Celebrating Black and Brown Women Volume 2
$10.95 Add to cartIt’s Finally time to take time out for YOU with this (2nd Edition) Self Care coloring book by Latoya Nicole – Exhale Again: A Self Care Coloring Book with Affirmations
You can’t pour from an empty cup.
- Author: Nicole, Latoya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: May 21 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985619003
- Language: English
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Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk Humor
$12.95 Read moreJuha is an old Arab comic literary figure (known also to Persians and Turks) around whom countless popular anecdotes were written. He appears variously as preacher and beggar, porter and petty merchan… [more below]
- Author: Jayyusi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 156656641X
- Language: English
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Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition
$17.00 Add to cartPoems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates
Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in w- Series: Library of Arabic Literature
- Author: ??hir, Al-M?yid? Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1479825808
- Language: English
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Impostures
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Ca- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #65
- Author: Al-?ar?r?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1479810568
- Language: English
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African Myths of Origin
$19.00 Add to cartGathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and despe… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Belcher, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0140449450
- Language: English
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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter’s Saga
$15.95 Add to cartThe first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language.
- Author: Fagunwa, D. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: September 24, 2013
- ISBN10: 0872866300
- Language: English
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Impostures
$48.00 Add to cartOne of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Ca- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #65
- Author: Al-?ar?r?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1479800848
- Language: English
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A Hundred and One Nights
$19.00 Add to cartA luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder
Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabi- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #10
- Author: Fudge, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1479873233
- Language: English
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Return to Dar Al-Basha
$9.95 Add to cartReturn to Dar al-Basha by the contemporary Tunisian author Hassan Nasr depicts the childhood of Murtada al-Shamikh and his return forty years later to his home in the medina or old city of Tunis. Afte
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Nasr, Hassan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0815608780
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative
$12.95 Add to cartOlaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, in which the author describes his birth in Africa, his enslavement and transportation to America, and his journey from slavery to freedom, was published just a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198707525
- 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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Midnight and Other Poems
$19.99 Add to cartA collection of poems of Mourid Barghouti who spent many years in exile.
- Series: ARC Translation
- Author: Barghouti, Mourid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 190461468X
- Language: English
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Arabian Nights and Days
$15.95 Add to cartThe Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets,… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0385469012
- Language: English
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Tekebash and Saba: Recipes and Stories from an East African Kitchen
$35.00 Add to cart“Mother-daughter duo Tekebash and Saba tell their story, and the story of their homeland, Ethiopia, through the lens of food, demonstrating how sharing food from another culture can offer us all a pat… [more below]
- Author: Alemayoh, Saba
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1623710944
- Language: English
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Afro Vegan: Family Recipes from a British-Nigerian Kitchen
$25.00 Read more– Vibrant plant-based dishes fusing African and European flavors from a young British-Nigerian cook – Includes almost 50 recipes Introducing Zoe Alakija, a London-based cook, whose rich recipes blend … [more below]
- Author: Alakija, Zoe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: May 09 2024
- ISBN10: 191056690X
- Language: English
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Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology
$19.95 Add to cartSpanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s e… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Babikir, Adil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 149621563X
- Language: English
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Black and Female: Essays
$23.00 Read moreThe first wound for all of us who are classified as “black” is empire.
In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied- Author: Dangarembga, Tsitsi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452111
- Language: English
