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  • An African Voice

    The Role of the Humanities in African Independence

    by Robert W. July ...
    Series series Duke University Center for International Studies Publications
    Through the work of leading African writers, artists, musicians and educators—from Nobel prizewinner Wole Soyinka to names hardly known outside their native lands—An African Voice describes the contributions of the humanities to the achievement of independence for the peoples of black Africa following the Second World War. While concentrating on cultural independence, these leading humanists also ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived

    by Tania Glyde ...
    Imagine not drinking a bottle of wine before making a pass; not moving in like a starving cat when someone is at the bar; not apologising for something you don't remember doing. Once upon a time, Tania Glyde couldn't imagine living any other way. She wondered whether she had a problem, but so many people drank more and as a clock-watching 6pm-er who hardly ever threw up in public, by general ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Fate of Africa

    A History of the Continent Since Independence

    by Martin Meredith ...
    The definitive story of African nations after they emerged from colonialism -- from Mugabe's doomed kleptocracy to Mandela's inspiring defeat of apartheid.The Fate of Africa has been hailed by reviewers as "A masterpiece....The nonfiction book of the year" (The New York Post); "a magnificent achievement" (Weekly Standard); "a joy," (Wall Street Journal) and "one of the decade's most important ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Balkans, Italy & Africa 1914–1918

    From Sarajevo to the Piave and Lake Tanganyika

    by David Jordan ...
    Series series History of WWI
    The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns on land, at sea and in the air.The assassination in Sarajevo of the Austro-Hungarian ... Read more

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  • Becoming Abigail

    A Novella

    by Chris Abani ...
    A breathtaking novella from the award-winning author of Song for Night and GraceLand.—A New York Times Editors' Choice"Moody, lyrical prose reminiscent of Toni Morrison's Beloved . . . Though the fictional Abigail exists only on the pages of Abani's novella, her character will seize the imagination of everyone who reads her story." — Essence Magazine" Becoming Abigail, a spare yet voluptuous tale ... Read more

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  • Song for Night

    by Chris Abani ...
    "A devastating portrait of a boy holding onto the shreds of his innocence during a war that deliberately, remorselessly works to yank it away."— Los Angeles TimesPart Inferno, part Paradise Lost, part Sunjata epic, Song for Night is the story of a West African boy soldier's terrifying yet oddly beautiful journey through a nightmare landscape of brutal war in search of his lost platoon. The mute ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success

    by Keith C. Holmes ...
    Series series 2nd Endition
    Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success highlights inventors of color from over seventy countries and five continents. This book took over twenty years to research and documents black inventors from 1769 - 2011. It a must read for parents, students, teachers and librarians. It is most indepth study done on inventors of color to date. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • South Sudan

    A Slow Liberation

    by Edward Thomas ...
    In 2011, South Sudan became independent following a long war of liberation, that gradually became marked by looting, raids and massacres pitting ethnic communities against each other. In this remarkably comprehensive work, Edward Thomas provides a multi-layered examination of what is happening in the country today. Writing from the perspective of South Sudan's most mutinous hinterland, Jonglei ... Read more

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  • The Uncertain Business of Doing Good

    Outsiders in Africa

    by Larry Krotz ...
    The relationship between Westerners and Africa has long been conflicted and complicated. Frequently exploitative, it is also just as often propelled by an almost irresistible urge to "do good." The persistence of this impulse is intriguing. From Doctor Livingstone 150 years ago to rock star Bono today, outsiders have championed foreign intervention in Africa in political, social, economic, and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Africa in the World

    Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    At the Second World War’s end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe’s domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa’s past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for ... Read more

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  • The Amputated Memory

    A Novel

    by Werewere Liking, Marjolijn de Jager, Michelle Mielly ...
    Series series Women Writing Africa
    A modern-day Things Fall Apart, The Amputated Memory explores the ways in which an African woman’s memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible.Pinned between the political ambitions of her philandering father, the colonial and global influences of encroaching and ... Read more

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  • The African American Odyssey

    by Bilal R. Muhammad ...
    The African American Odyssey is a literary compilation of a portrait combined with a strong compelling chronological history and discussion of the African American plight, from an African American perspective. It also entails many significant aspects of African American struggles, achievements and wondering about in a country that adamantly refuses to see African Americans. Propelled by enthusiasm ... Read more

    $7.19 USD