West Africa

'Remarkable' Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters' Street AKORFA AND SELASI WERE ONCE INSEPARABLE. NOW, THEY MUST REPAIR THEIR BROKEN RELATIONSHIP OR LOSE EACH OTHER FOREVER. Growing up in the same small Ghanaian town, Selasi and Akorfa...

When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should read" (The...

Mariama Ba's pioneering debut, So Long a Letter, captures the private lives of women in 1970s Senegal.Recently widowed, Ramatoulaye is required to take sole responsibility for the long mourning process of her late husband. A husband she has not seen in...

‘A great novel ... bone-chilling black satire … it deserves many readings’ New York TimesA mock epic of explosive power, Bound to Violence races through the history of the imaginary African kingdom of Nakem, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century...

How do you begin a murder story starring a curious foreigner and an opportunistic local without giving away the entire plot—who died and why? You start with the obvious villain. 2019, The Year of Return. It has been exactly 400 years since the first...

Graceland is a dazzling debut by a singular new talent The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Broke, beset by floods,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646894553Author Nteranya SangingaFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Vert PublishingPublisher Vert PublishingWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

For the first time, Nithap flies across the world to visit his son, Tanou, in the United States. After countless staticky phone calls and transatlantic silences, he has agreed to leave Bangwa: the city in western Cameroon where he has always lived, where...

A powerful, heartrending, and insightful novel of a trio of women in Cameroon who dare to rebel against oppressive, long-held cultural traditions—including polygamy and domestic abuse—that define and limit their lives.Three women, three stories, three...

Amazon Editor's Pick, Best SFF September 2023 * The Strand, Science Fiction Pick of the Month October 2023Deluxe, expanded edition of an out-of-print early novel from Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor, with a brand-new introduction from the author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949641356Author Hemley BoumFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Two Lines PressPublisher Two Lines PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 130mm *...

Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. The Clothes of Nakedness cleverly examines the complexities of human relationships, offering a gritty expose of the divide between rich and poor in modern Ghana. Evil...

In this historical novel, Yaw M. Boateng tells the harrowing story of the Atlantic slave trade and the devastating effects it had on the Ashanti Empire. 'This, then, is the story of Seku and Jakpa. But it is also the story of Malaam Fuseini, and of...

Sozaboy powerfully describes the fate of a young, naive soldier thrown into the frontline of a civil war, from his first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment and horrors that follow. Mene yearns for manhood. He dreams of gaining the glory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635423273Author Mohamed Mbougar SarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 556g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767846Author Irenosen OkojieFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull PressWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798611950975Author Yaya SillahFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Suba Kunda PublishingPublisher Suba Kunda PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789988550875Author Moussibahou MazouFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Sub-Saharan PublishersPublisher Sub-Saharan PublishersWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789787805695Author R E I EyoitaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rex Eyo Ibook EyoitaPublisher Rex Eyo Ibook EyoitaWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803691664Author Santos A. ContehFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 483g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956553419Author Emmanuel Fru DohFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 336g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038313027Author Najat Sinclair-BenrbiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736395745Author Richard GarteeFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Lake & Emerald PublicationsPublisher Lake & Emerald PublicationsWeight(grams) 236g

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In this debut novel, Kofi Awoonor brilliantly interweaves poetry and allegory into a profound tale of social corruption in post-colonial Ghana. Rooted in the African oral tradition, This Earth, My Brother paints a picture of post-independent Ghana...

In this debut novel, Kofi Awoonor brilliantly interweaves poetry and allegory into a profound tale of social corruption in post-colonial Ghana. Rooted in the African oral tradition, This Earth, My Brother paints a picture of post-independent Ghana...

Climates of Migration offers a transcultural, transhistorical, transcolonial and transnational analysis of the interplay between migration and climate change.

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Climates of Migration offers a transcultural, transhistorical, transcolonial and transnational analysis of the interplay between migration and climate change.