Cultural Region/African
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Catiline’s Conspiracy, the Jugurthine War, Histories
$15.95 Add to cartSallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged portraits of the moral and political degeneration of the Roman Republic. Sallust’s abrupt… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sallust
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0192823450
- 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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The Enduring Relevance of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
$10.99 Add to cartSoon after its publication in 1972, Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (HEUA) gained global popularity among progressive students, scholars and activists, and people concerned with Afric
- Author: Hirji, Karim F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0995222398
- 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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Elephant Whisperer
$39.99 Add to cartWhen South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of rogue wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the
- Series: Elephant Whisperer #1
- Author: Anthony, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 10 2009
- ISBN10: 031256578X
- 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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Thunder Without Rain: A Memoir with Dangerous Game, God’s Cattle, the African Buffalo
$29.99 Add to cart“When you hear thunder without rain-it is the buffalo approaching.” This line from a Yoruba hunting poem conveys the magnificent power of the African buffalo, also called “God’s cattle.” Hunter and wr… [more below]
- Author: McIntyre, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1510738347
- Language: English
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
$21.99 Add to cartThe legendary travel writer’s thrilling and dangerous account of his journey across Africa
A rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and en… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 485
- Publish Date: April 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0618446877
- Language: English
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Scramble for Africa…
$24.99 Add to cartWhite Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent
from 1876 to 1912- Author: Pakenham, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0380719991
- 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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Come, Tell Me How You Live
$18.99 Add to cartOver the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious whodunits and page-turning locked-room mysteries featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and a host of… [more below]
- Author: Mallowan, Agatha Christie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0062093703
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of God in Africa: A History of African Christianity
$29.99 Add to cartAfrican Christianity is not an imported religion but rather one of the oldest forms of Christianity in the world. In The Kingdom of God in Africa, Mark Shaw and Wanjiru M. Gitau trace the development
- Author: Shaw, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1783688114
- 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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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
$19.99 Add to cartThe path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves.
“A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.” —New York Times Book ReviewDay… [more below]
- Author: Olopade, Dayo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0544483995
- 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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Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
$26.99 Add to cartA poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender–and toward a brighter future–from National Book Award nominee Evette Dionne
My body has not betrayed m
- Author: Dionne, Evette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063076365
- Language: English
