Cultural Region/African
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
$19.99 Add to cartOne of Financial Times’ Books of the Year, 2015
The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other “emerging- Author: Burgis, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1610397118
- 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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Hebrewisms of West Africa Hardcover
$43.00 Add to cartHebrewisms of West Africa
- Author: Williams, Joseph J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: June 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1639233903
- Language: English
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Too Late the Phalarope
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Cry, The Beloved Country comes a powerful novel of terror and remorse “written in exquisitely balanced prose” (Chicago Sun-Times) about a white policeman who has an affair with a na… [more below]
- Author: Paton, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0684818957
- 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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The New Breed
$10.99 Add to cartFrom the blistering jungles of Vietnam to the far-flung battlefields of the African Congo, they faced the turmoil of a new era. It was a different kind of war. But the courage and skill of these young… [more below]
- Series: Brotherhood of War (Brilliance) #7
- Author: Griffin, W. E. B.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0515092266
- Language: English
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The Smell of Apples
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times
Winner of the M-Net Award
Winner of The Eugene Marais Award
Winner of the CNA Literary Award
Winner of the Betty Trask Award- Author: Behr, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0312152094
- Language: English
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Days Come and Go
$24.95 Add to cartChronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon, Days Come and Go is the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. Through the voices of Anna… [more below]
- Author: Boum, Hemley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 194964135X
- Language: English
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The Marrow of Tradition
$8.00 Add to cartIn this landmark tale, one of the great American novelists exposed the harsh dimensions of Southern prejudice during post-Reconstruction era. Charles W. Chesnutt traces the intertwined lives of two pr… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Chesnutt, Charles W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0486838374
- 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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Maps
$17.99 Add to cart“Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.”–Nadine Gordimer
Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literatu- Series: The Blood in the Sun Trilogy #1
- Author: Farah, Nuruddin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1628725850
- Language: English
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The Living Blood
$30.99 Add to cart*From the author of The Reformatory–A New York Times Notable Book of 2023*
The bestselling author of Joplin’s Ghost delivers a riveting novel of supernatural suspense–a gripping tale that showcases- Author: Due, Tananarive
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0671040847
- Language: English
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A Carrion Death: Introducing Detective Kubu
$15.99 Add to cart“[An] impressive debut. . . . The intricate plotting, a grisly sense of realism and numerous topical motifs . . . make this a compulsively readable novel.” — Publishers Weekly
A Carrion Death offers a
- Series: Detective Kubu #1
- Author: Stanley, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0061252417
- Language: English
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Someone Birthed Them Broken: Stories
$26.99 Read more“Delightfully assertive, subversive and vibrant… an original voice.” –Imbolo Mbue, author of the New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction winner Behold the Dreamers – “A compel
- Author: Diaka, Ama Asantewa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063259559
- Language: English
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Ghostroots: Stories
$26.99 Read moreIn this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ‘Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came bef
- Author: Aguda, ‘Pemi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324065850
- Language: English
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The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ And Mũmbi
$33.98 Read moreA dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels and memoirs have rec
- Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975254
- 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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A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
$16.99 Add to cartA beguiling novel that does for contemporary Kenya and its 1,000 species of birds what Alexander McCall Smith’s Ladies Detective series does for Botswana
For the past three years, the widower Mr. Mali- Author: Drayson, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247958
- Language: English
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A Spell of Good Things
$17.00 Add to cartBOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE – A NEW YORKER AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – GMA BUZZ PICK – A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and… [more below]
- Author: Adebayo, Ayobami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1984898884
- Language: English
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These Letters End in Tears
$27.00 Read moreSet in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wrenching forbidden love story of a Christian girl with a rebellious heart and a Muslim girl leading a do… [more below]
- Author: Xaviere, Musih Tedji
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221869
- Language: English
