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Soldiers in Zimbabwe`s Liberation War by Ngwabi Bhebe 9780852556092
RRP: $32.24$22.72This 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 comfortable myths. Both heroic and terrible deeds are recorded. Zimbabwe: University of Zimbabwe PublicationsBook... -
Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe 9781400076581
$20.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Man Booker International Prize 2007 and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9781400076581Author Chinua AchebeFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Words of Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi
RRP: $11.60$9.75Gandhi'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... -
A Wreath for Udomo (Faber Editions) by Peter Abrahams
RRP: $12.89$8.64'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... -
The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco by Richard Hamilton
RRP: $19.34$14.41After 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. ... -
I Do Not Come to You by Chance Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani 9780753826973
RRP: $12.89$8.77'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 Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano
RRP: $14.18$10.02'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... -
Innards by Magogodi oaMphela Makhene 9781805460978
RRP: $19.34$12.64'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... -
How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
RRP: $21.92$15.84A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it... -
Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon by Makuchi
RRP: $21.92$19.44Women'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... -
Swahili, State and Society - The Political Economy of an African Language by Ali A. Mazrui 9780852557297
$26.10The authors consider the spread of the Swahili language in Eastern and Central Africa against a background of interaction between church and state, and between economics and politics. North America: Africa World Press; Kenya: EAEPBook InformationISBN... -
Forest of A Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga by D. O. Fagunwa 9780872866300
RRP: $15.47$11.61"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... -
Dear Strong Black Woman: Letters of Nourishment and Reflection from One Strong Black Woman to Another by Jennifer Sterling 9781944134211
RRP: $20.58$12.37Apologies 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... -
Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time by Jonathan Kingdon
RRP: $38.70$26.48A 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... -
Welcome to Our Hillbrow: A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa by Phaswane Mpe 9780821419625
$19.18Welcome 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 shattered... -
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams 9780571376414
RRP: $12.89$8.64'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... -
Thirteen Cents: A Novel by K. Sello Duiker
RRP: $20.63$18.37Every 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... -
A Modern History of the Somali - Nation and State in the Horn of Africa by I. M. Lewis 9780852554838
RRP: $32.24$26.10The 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 modernity. North America: Ohio U PressBook InformationISBN... -
The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall 9780199335558
RRP: $11.60$8.32The 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... -
Black Voices on Britain by Hakim Adi
RRP: $14.18$9.69A 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... -
Under Our Skin by Jethro Soutar 9781951213527
RRP: $18.06$11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951213527Author Jethro SoutarFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Unnamed PressPublisher Unnamed Press -
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Gerald Moore
RRP: $19.34$14.13'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... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner 9780008347628
RRP: $14.18$9.35A 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... -
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo by Anjan Sundaram 9781782392477 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$3.04Written with startling beauty and acuity, Stringer is an account of a year and a half that Anjan Sundaram spent in the Congo working on the bottom rung of the Associated Press. It was an intense period that would take him deep into the shadowy city of... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
RRP: $21.92$14.80A 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: $32.24$30.86Joint 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. ... -
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African descent by Various Authors
RRP: $25.80$19.72Three 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... -
Guns and Rain - Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe by David Lan
RRP: $32.24$30.86Lan shows that to understand the meaning that Zimbabwe's war of independence had for its people, the role of the spirit mediums must also be understood. Almost every anti-colonial struggle in the 20th century was led by an army of guerrillas, and no... -
So Vast The Prison by Assia Djebar
RRP: $15.47$10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583220672Author Assia DjebarFormat PaperbackPage Count 363Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 531g -
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
RRP: $12.89$8.64Winner 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... -
Tales of the Metric System: A Novel by Imraan Coovadia 9780821422267
$23.88"On the borders there were new guerrilla armies. The rouble and the dollar had replaced the pound sterling. The kilometre and the kilogram and the litre were new ways of measuring miles and imperial pounds and fluid ounces. In Zaire, Patrice Lumumba had... -
Changing Uganda - The Dilemmas of Structural Adjustment and Revolutionary Change by Holger Bernt Hansen
RRP: $33.53$32.03Examines 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: $32.24$30.86Essential 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... -
A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Terri Ochiagha
RRP: $16.76$15.18The 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... -
Life Times: Stories 1952-2007 Nadine Gordimer 9780747596189
RRP: $19.34$14.13Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed... -
Ancient Egyptian Literature by Miriam Lichtheim 9780520305847
RRP: $38.70$30.56First 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... -
Are We Not Also Men? - The Samkange Family and African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64 by Terence Ranger 9780852556184
RRP: $32.24$22.72This work provides a collective biography of Thompson Samkange and of two of his sons, Sketchley and Stanlake. Thompson Samkange was born in 1893 at the time that his land was being overwhelmed from the South. He was one of the founders of the African... -
Fortress Conservation - The Preservation of the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania by Dan Brockington
RRP: $25.79$25.01Challenges the myth of an African wilderness, and the conflict between conservation policies and the livelihoods of rural people. Many conservationists insist that conservation that ignores local costs cannot be sustained. For if conservation is... -
Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria by Tope Omoniyi 9782359260328
RRP: $16.71$12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782359260328Author Tope OmoniyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Amalion PublishingPublisher Amalion Publishing -
General History of Africa volume 2 (pbk abridged - Ancient Civilizations of Africa by G. Mokhtar
RRP: $32.24$31.37SPECIAL 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...