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The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.91'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.' Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative gives the author's account... -
The Mad Man on First Street and Other Short Stories by David Chasumba 9781914287329
Booksplease Price: $12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914287329Author David ChasumbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdPublisher Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Gerald Moore
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.06'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include... -
A Kind of Madness Uche Okonkwo 9780857309013
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.56A one-eyed chicken, a chimpanzee forgotten in a cage, a tormented daughter searching for a link to past lives. Everyday madness and monsters are explored against the backdrop of an indifferent Lagos in Uche Okonkwo's dynamic debut collection. Across ten... -
I Do Not Come to You by Chance Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani 9780753826973
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.80'Sparklingly funny' Wired Magazine'[Nwaubani] not merely explores a side of modern existence that touches millions every day, but does so with wit, warmth and insight' Independent'Beautifully written' Sunday HeraldKingsley is fresh out of university,... -
The Words of Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.93Gandhi's ideas are as meaningful today as they were during his long and inspiring life. His enlightening thoughts and beliefs, especially on violence and the atomic bomb, reveal his eloquent foresight about our contemporary world. The words of one of the... -
The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco by Richard Hamilton
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.19After 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. ... -
Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon by Makuchi
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.92Women'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... -
Forest of A Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga by D. O. Fagunwa 9780872866300
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.93"His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to 'justify the ways of God to man.'"--Wole Soyinka, translator... -
African Myths & Tales: Epic Tales by Dr. Kwadwo Osei-Nyame, Jnr
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.01Africa south of the Sahara is a land of wide-ranging traditions and varying cultures. Despite the diversity and the lack of early written records, the continent possesses a rich body of folk tales and legends that have been passed down through the strong... -
Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time by Jonathan Kingdon
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.53A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is also the story of how it was the crucible for the evolution most extraordinary species on... -
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know by 9780008469306
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.04To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images. Yet here,... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner 9780008347628
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.60A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life... -
Writings from the Sand, Volume 2: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt 9780803217553
Booksplease Price: $64.50Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age, dressing like a man so she could have access to areas forbidden to women, smoking in public, and otherwise scandalizing Genevan society. Already multilingual, she... -
Black Voices on Britain by Hakim Adi
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.87A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a... -
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African descent by Various Authors
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.13Three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie... -
Egyptian Proverbs by Muata Abhaya Ashby 9781884564000
RRP: $11.93Booksplease Price: $11.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884564000Author Muata Abhaya AshbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Cruzian Mystic BooksPublisher Cruzian Mystic BooksWeight(grams)... -
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know by 9780008469269
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.29To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images. And yet... -
The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall 9780199335558
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.49The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon that promoted a proud racial identity, economic independence, and... -
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams 9780571376414
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.89'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'The first African novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday TimesAnd the black man and the white were... -
The Black Man`s Burden - Africa and the Curse of the Nation-state by Basil Davidson 9780852557006
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $27.41Basil Davidson is the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Africa and certainly the best trusted in Africa itself. - Roland Oliver in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Basil Davidson on the nation-state in Africa and its... -
Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West Africa by Robert S. Smith
Booksplease Price: $32.25Innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period. Covering a period of some 400 to 500 years up to the last decades of the nineteenth century, the author takes a wide range of examples from those societies... -
Innards by Magogodi oaMphela Makhene 9781805460978
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.29'A gut punch of a collection...it astonishes as it reveals how malignant political forces can both ravage and vitalize the human spirit.' New York TimesSet in Soweto, the urban heartland of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday... -
Thirteen Cents: A Novel by K. Sello Duiker
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.51Every 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... -
Dear Strong Black Woman: Letters of Nourishment and Reflection from One Strong Black Woman to Another by Jennifer Sterling 9781944134211
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944134211Author Jennifer SterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint One Idea PressPublisher One Idea PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.73A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life... -
The Invention of Africa - Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge by V. Y. Mudimbe
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $32.04Joint winner of the 1989 Herskovits Award What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kind of fundamental questions which this book addresses. ... -
A Wreath for Udomo (Faber Editions) by Peter Abrahams
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.89'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday TimesThose men who are history now; did they feel like this? A 1950s Hampstead pub; a freezing night. Lois can't tear her eyes away from the haunted, restless African man in the corner... -
Soldiers in Zimbabwe`s Liberation War by Ngwabi Bhebe 9780852556092
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $23.98These two companion volumes on Soldiers and Society give new perspectives on Zimbabwe's liberation struggle. This work is an attempt to look at some of the realities of Zimbabwe's liberation war and at what happened afterwards, rather than at the... -
A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Terri Ochiagha
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.91The 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... -
Welcome to Our Hillbrow: A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa by Phaswane Mpe 9780821419625
Booksplease Price: $19.40Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow--microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring, and painful in the postapartheid South African psyche. Everything is there: the... -
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.89Winner of the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, this is an unforgettable collection of powerful stories by a stunning young voice from Zimbabwe.A woman in a township is surrounded by dusty children but... -
Changing Uganda - The Dilemmas of Structural Adjustment and Revolutionary Change by Holger Bernt Hansen
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $41.77Examines the dilemmas of introducing revolutionary changes in an African country deeply affected by structural adjustment. Yoweri Museveni battled to power in 1986 and his government impressed many observers, some of whom recommended it as a model for... -
Uganda Now - Between Decay and Development by Holger Bernt Hansen
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $41.77Essential overview of Uganda's National Resistance Movement's desperate inheritance. Uganda's recovery has been remarkable, but when this book was being written, Museveni's guerrillas were only then launching their final bid for power. North... -
General History of Africa volume 2 (pbk abridged - Ancient Civilizations of Africa by G. Mokhtar
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $35.68SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Volume 2 covers the period beginning at the close of the Neolithic era, from around the eighth... -
A Modern History of the Somali - Nation and State in the Horn of Africa by I. M. Lewis 9780852554838
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $27.41I.M. Lewis's classic text on the history of the Somali peoples. The Fourth Edition of this history shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organisation and the ingenuity with which the Somali way of life has adapted to all forms of... -
Elephant by Siana Bangura 9780993513107
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993513107Author Siana BanguraFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Haus of Liberated ReadingPublisher Haus of Liberated Reading -
Ancient Egyptian Literature by Miriam Lichtheim 9780520305847
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $31.81First published in 1973, this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world's earliest civilizations. Beginning with the early and gradual evolution of... -
General History of Africa volume 8 (pbk unabridg - Africa since 1935 by Ali A. Mazrui 9780852550984
Booksplease Price: $39.23SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Africa has moved from international conflict under foreign domination to struggles for political... -
And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night by Jack Mapanje 9780956240170
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956240170Author Jack MapanjeFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 429g