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Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin
RRP: $23.08$16.32A 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... -
Africana by Lerato Umah-Shaylor
RRP: $46.20$32.72'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... -
The Black History Book by DK
RRP: $41.98$29.59Learn 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... -
Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of Black African London by Jimi Famurewa
RRP: $23.08$16.32Settlers 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: $42.00$37.46In 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... -
The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco by Richard Hamilton
RRP: $31.48$23.46After 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. ... -
Julius Nyerere by Paul Bjerk
RRP: $27.28$24.72With 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... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice
RRP: $23.08$16.32A 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... -
Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong by Claire Ratinon 9781529114867
RRP: $23.08$14.95A 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... -
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf
RRP: $50.38$44.60Illuminates 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... -
Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon by Makuchi
RRP: $35.68$31.65Women'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... -
At the Center of the World in Ethiopia by Steven Were Omamo 9789914743029
RRP: $27.28$17.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789914743029Author Steven Were OmamoFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Richardson-Omamo BooksPublisher Richardson-Omamo BooksWeight(grams)... -
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary by Ernest Harsch
RRP: $27.28$24.72Thomas 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... -
Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of African London by Jimi Famurewa
RRP: $39.88$30.64A 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... -
The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi: Being the First Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe by Meyer Fortes 9781138591950
RRP: $69.28$61.24Originally published in 1945, this book analyses Tale social structure at the level of corporate group organization. Tale culture is discussed primarily as the content of social relations and not in its own right. Customs, beliefs, conventional usages,... -
Freedom Dreams (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION): The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley
RRP: $37.78$24.13Apologies 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 -
Born in Blackness: Africa and the Making of the Modern World by Howard W. French
RRP: $33.58$25.94In 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... -
African Art As Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude by Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9781635423211
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635423211Author Souleymane Bachir DiagneFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
Thirteen Cents: A Novel by K. Sello Duiker
RRP: $33.58$29.90Every 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... -
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by Nwando Achebe 9780821424070
RRP: $27.28$24.72An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe's unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual... -
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French
RRP: $58.78$48.57In 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... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice 9781800241589
RRP: $52.50$45.76A 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... -
Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation by Jeffrey S. Ahlman
RRP: $27.28$24.72A 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... -
In Between by Maud Blair 9781800182936
RRP: $27.28$18.33'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... -
Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism by Professor David Birmingham 9780821412428
RRP: $31.48$29.99The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white... -
Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution by Dan Connell
RRP: $62.90$50.67Apologies 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. -
What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: $39.88$35.66Antiblack 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... -
Dhows & Colonial Economy In Zanzibar: 1860-1970 by Erik Gilbert 9780821415580
RRP: $54.58$51.47Conventional history assumes that the rise of the steamship trade killed off the Indian Ocean dhow trade in the twentieth century. Erik Gilbert argues that the dhow economy played a major role in shaping the economic and social life of colonial Zanzibar... -
Zanzibar Was a Country: Exile and Citizenship between East Africa and the Gulf by Nathaniel Mathews 9780520400702
RRP: $52.50$41.14Zanzibar Was a Country traces the history of a Swahili-speaking Arab diaspora from East Africa to Oman. In Oman today, whole communities in Muscat speak Swahili, have recent East African roots, and practice forms of sociality associated with the urban... -
Colloquial Zulu by Sandra Sanneh
RRP: $92.38$81.56Colloquial 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... -
Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia by Audrey Richards
RRP: $35.68$31.96Audrey 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... -
An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon
RRP: $31.48$18.77'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... -
An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon 9780349701271
RRP: $18.88$13.02'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... -
Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe by Apostolos Andrikopoulos
RRP: $50.40$48.36Examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europe. In rapidly changing and highly precarious contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in... -
Amilcar Cabral: A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary by Peter Karibe Mendy
RRP: $27.28$24.72Amilcar 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... -
Epidemics: The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases by Howard Phillips 9780821420287
RRP: $27.28$24.72This 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... -
Moral Economy Of The State: Conservation, Community Development, & State-Making in Zimbabwe by William A. Munro 9780896802025
RRP: $67.20$60.08The 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"... -
Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies S.N. Nyeck (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) 9781032082660
$94.46This handbook offers diverse perspectives on queer Africa, incorporating scholarly contributions on themes that reflect and inflect the trajectories of queer contributions to African studies within and outside academia.The Routledge Handbook of Queer... -
Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith
RRP: $46.20$36.46An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the... -
A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Terri Ochiagha
RRP: $27.28$24.72The 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...