Cultural Region/African

  • Afterlives

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    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022

    A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ

    A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAG

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    • Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 05, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593541898
    • Language: English
  • Nervous Conditions

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    A modern classic from the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body

    The groundbreaking first novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s award-winning trilogy, Nervous Conditions, won the Commonwealth Writer

    • Series: Nervous Conditions
    • Author: Dangarembga, Tsitsi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 18, 2021
    • ISBN10: 1644450712
    • Language: English
  • Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

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    WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY

    A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War

    I’m a song, changing. I’m a ligh

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    • Author: Phillips, Carl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: February 14, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0374607672
    • Language: English
  • The Other Side of Truth

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    Will the truth harm them — or save them?

    When Nigeria’s corrupt military government kills their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her brother Femi think their lives are over. Out of fear for their safe

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    • Author: Naidoo, Beverley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: December 24 2002
    • ISBN10: 0064410021
    • Language: English
  • Small Worlds

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    An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and Costa First Novel Award winning author Caleb Azumah Nelson

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    • Author: Nelson, Caleb Azumah
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: July 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 0802161960
    • Language: English
  • Future Hero

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    The start of a thrilling, highly illustrated series about a boy who finds a portal to a legendary world in his local barbershop . . . and learns he’s the hero they’ve been waiting for. For younger fan

    • Author: Blackwood, Remi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: August 02, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1338790323
    • Language: English
  • King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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    “An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel.” — Christian Science Monitor
    “As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times .

    • Author: Hochschild, Adam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: March 03, 2020
    • ISBN10: 0358212502
    • Language: English
  • African Holistic Health Paperback

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    african holistic health addresses health issues from a comprehensive african -centered viewpoint.it provides a complete guide to herbal remedies along with homeopathic disease treatments.what makes af… [more below]

    • Author: Afrika, Llaila O.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 554
    • Publish Date: February 16 2012
    • ISBN10: 1617590312
    • Language: English
  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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    The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis

    In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinker

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    • Author: Rodney, Walter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: November 27 2018
    • ISBN10: 1788731182
    • Language: English
  • Like Thunder: The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book Two

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    This brand-new sequel to Nnedi Okorafor’s Shadow Speaker contains the powerful prose and compelling stories that have made Nnedi Okorafor a star of the literary science fiction and fantasy space and p[more below]

    • Series: The Desert Magician’s Duology
    • Author: Okorafor, Nnedi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: November 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 0756418798
    • Language: English
  • Shadow Speaker: The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book One

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    Amazon Editor’s Pick, Best SFF September 2023 – The Strand, Science Fiction Pick of the Month October 2023

    Deluxe, expanded edition of an out-of-print early novel from Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi O

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    • Series: The Desert Magician’s Duology
    • Author: Okorafor, Nnedi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 26 2023
    • ISBN10: 0756418763
    • Language: English
  • Our Story Starts in Africa

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    Award-winning writer Patrice Lawrence’s picture book Our Story Starts in Africa is a sensitively told story of Black history from its very ancient origins to its dynamic future, vibrantly illustrated

    • Author: Lawrence, Patrice
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: September 13, 2022
    • ISBN10: 141976022X
    • Language: English
  • The Most Secret Memory of Men

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    A Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times and The New Yorker and Longlisted for the National Book Award

    A gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bola’s Savage Detectives, this coming-of-age novel un

    • Author: Sarr, Mohamed Mbougar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: September 26, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1635423279
    • Language: English
  • The Door of No Return

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    From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander, comes the first book in a searing, breathtaking trilogy that tells the story of a boy, a village, and the epic odyss

    • Series: The Door of No Return #1
    • Author: Alexander, Kwame
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: September 27, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0316441864
    • Language: English
  • The Black Joy Project

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    NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work

    Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York

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    • Author: Cruz, Kleaver
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: December 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 0358588758
    • Language: English
  • World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

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    A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain

    Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world tha

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    • Author: Bourdain, Anthony
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: April 20 2021
    • ISBN10: 0062802798
    • Language: English
  • Beatrice’s Goat

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    Based on a true story, this heartwarming picture book shows how one gift changed the fate of a poor Ugandan family–especially the young girl who wanted to go to school.

    More than anything, Beatrice l

    • Author: McBrier, Page
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: July 01, 2004
    • ISBN10: 0689869908
    • Language: English
  • The Lion King (Disney the Lion King)

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    The exciting tale of Simba, a young cub who earns his place in the Circle of Life, is retold in the classic Little Golden Book format. Children ages 2-5 will roar with excitement as they read this ret… [more below]

    • Series: Little Golden Book
    • Author: Korman, Justine
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 24
    • Publish Date: September 09 2003
    • ISBN10: 0736420959
    • Language: English
  • The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

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    The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller–about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader[more below]

    • Author: Reid, Stuart A.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 624
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1524748811
    • Language: English
  • An American Story (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)

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    A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Book
    A 2023 New York Times Best Children’s Book
    A 2023 Publisher’s Weekly Best Picture Book
    An NPR Best Book of the Year

    #1 New York Times Bestselling and award-

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    • Author: Alexander, Kwame
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 56
    • Publish Date: January 03, 2023
    • ISBN10: 031647312X
    • Language: English
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