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Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin
RRP: £10.99£7.77A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.'Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.' Adam Rutherford'An exhilarating journey through the myths, misconceptions and stereotypes of... -
The Black History Book by DK
RRP: £19.99£13.63Learn about the most important milestones in Black history in The Black History Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Black History in this overview... -
The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco by Richard Hamilton
RRP: £14.99£11.47After witnessing first-hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition, Richard Hamilton has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers of Morocco, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb. ... -
Africana by Lerato Umah-Shaylor
RRP: £22.00£15.58'It is a glorious book: an education and an invitation. There is such life in its pages, and such food!' Nigella Lawson A culinary expedition celebrating cooking from across the African continent Africana... -
Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of Black African London by Jimi Famurewa
RRP: £10.99£7.77Settlers is a testament to Jimi Famurewa's love not just for his lineage, but for the culture. An incisive, intimate and profound work. - Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie and People Person As thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this... -
Conflict Minerals, Inc.: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo by Christoph N. Vogel
RRP: £20.00£17.46In the twenty-first century, the relationship between violent conflict and natural resources has become a matter of intense public and academic debate. As a result of fervent activism and international campaigning, the flagship case of 'conflict... -
Julius Nyerere by Paul Bjerk
RRP: £14.99£13.11With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold War union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Nyerere emerged as one of... -
Freedom Dreams (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION): The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007037Author Robin D.G. KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon
RRP: £14.99£8.94'OMG!!! This has to be my best book of the year!... Made me laugh and it made me cry!... So heartbreaking but inspiring at the same time. Loved it!' Goodreads ReviewerA powerful novel about an intersex Nigerian teenager and the courage to be... -
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf
RRP: £25.99£22.44Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice
RRP: £10.99£7.77A riveting study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future. 'Essential reading' Guardian 'Intensely researched - and very important!' The Week 'The research in Youthquake... -
Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon by Makuchi
RRP: £18.99£16.36Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by... -
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French
RRP: £27.99£23.66In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the... -
Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960 by Patrick William Otim 9780821411469
RRP: £29.99£25.99Acholi Intellectuals draws on the writings of homespun historians, interviews with elderly men and women who remember the last days of colonial rule, and government and missionary archives to illuminate the intellectual and political history of the... -
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary by Ernest Harsch
RRP: £14.99£13.11Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his government. Although his tenure in office was relatively... -
The Political Economy Of U.s. Policy Toward South Africa by Kevin Danaher 9780367310448
RRP: £39.99£35.06By tracing U.S. involvement in South African political and economic development since the late 1800s, this book analyzes U.S. corporate and government motives for maintaining the political status quo in South Africa. In recent decades, according to the... -
Born in Blackness: Africa and the Making of the Modern World by Howard W. French
RRP: £15.99£13.47In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the... -
Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of African London by Jimi Famurewa
RRP: £18.99£14.27A journey into the extraordinary, vibrant world of Black African London which is shaping modern Britain. What makes a Londoner? What is it to be Black, African and British? And how can we understand the many tangled roots of our modern nation without... -
Thirteen Cents: A Novel by K. Sello Duiker
RRP: £16.99£14.74Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope, and... -
Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong by Claire Ratinon 9781529114867
RRP: £10.99£7.12A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire Ratinon grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors and... -
Epidemics: The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases by Howard Phillips 9780821420287
RRP: £14.99£13.11This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and... -
Darkness before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today by Hans Lucht 9780520270732
RRP: £25.00£19.18This riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. A story that illuminates the nature of high-risk migration around... -
An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon 9780349701271
RRP: £8.99£6.20'OMG!!! This has to be my best book of the year!... Made me laugh and it made me cry!... So heartbreaking but inspiring at the same time. Loved it!' Goodreads ReviewerA powerful novel about an intersex Nigerian teenager and the courage to be... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice 9781800241589
RRP: £25.00£21.79A riveting study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future. 'Essential reading' Guardian 'Intensely researched - and very important!' The Week 'The research in Youthquake... -
A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Terri Ochiagha
RRP: £14.99£13.11The publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it has sold more than... -
Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia by Audrey Richards
RRP: £16.99£15.22Audrey Richards (1899-1984) was a leading British anthropologist of the twentieth century and the first woman president of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Based on fieldwork conducted at a time when the discipline was dominated by male... -
In Between by Maud Blair 9781800182936
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Vivid . . . the history Maud Blair brings alive is significant in its detail' Beverley Naidoo, acclaimed author of Journey to Jo'burgWhat does it mean to grow up with an African mother and European father in racially segregated 1950s Rhodesia?For Maud... -
Amilcar Cabral: A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary by Peter Karibe Mendy
RRP: £14.99£13.11Amilcar Cabral was an agronomist who led an armed struggle that ended Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde. The uprising contributed significantly to the collapse of a fascist regime in Lisbon and the dismantlement of Portugal's empire... -
Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature by Sule E. Egya
RRP: £39.99£35.06Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature is a critical study of environmental writing, covering a range of genres and generations of writers in Nigeria. With a sustained concentration on the Nigerian experience in postcolonial... -
Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation by Jeffrey S. Ahlman
RRP: £14.99£13.11A new biography of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, one of the most influential political figures in twentieth-century African history. As the first prime minister and president ofthe West African state of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah helped shape the global narrative of... -
Paper Sons and Daughters: Growing up Chinese in South Africa by Ufrieda Ho 9780821420201
RRP: £18.99£16.36Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it,... -
What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: £18.99£16.62Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz... -
Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution by Dan Connell
RRP: £29.95£19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569027622Author Dan ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S. -
Colloquial Zulu by Sandra Sanneh
RRP: £43.99£38.84Colloquial Zulu is an easy-to-use and up-to-date guide to the Zulu language. Specially written for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Zulu. No prior knowledge of the language is required.What... -
Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS by Marc Epprecht 9780821417997
RRP: £29.99£25.99Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by... -
The Contested Idea of South Africa by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni 9781032134321
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Ever since the delineation of South Africa as a country, the many diverse groups of people contained within its borders have... -
Africanfuturism: African Imaginings of Other Times, Spaces, and Worlds by Kimberly Cleveland 9780821411483
RRP: £25.99£22.83In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from the African continent. However, an increasing number of Africans and Africanists have voiced their... -
What Gender is Motherhood?: Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity by Oyeronke Oyewumi 9781349580514
RRP: £32.99£30.04In this book, Oyewumi extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yoruba society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of... -
The Conscript: A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War by Gebreyesus Hailu
RRP: £14.99£13.11Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception... -
Moral Economy Of The State: Conservation, Community Development, & State-Making in Zimbabwe by William A. Munro 9780896802025
RRP: £36.00£31.39The Moral Economy of the State examines state formation in Zimbabwe from the colonial period through the first decade of independence. Drawing on the works of Gramsci, E. P. Thompson, and James Scott, William Munro develops a theory of "moral economy"...