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The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla's Voice of Agony by Abdilatif Abdalla 9780472056613
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £31.14The extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony) is a collection of prison poems composed by Abdilatif Abdalla between 1969 and 1972. He originally wrote the poems while... -
Achebe and Friends at Umuahia - The Making of a Literary Elite by Terri Ochiagha 9781847011091
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38WINNER OF THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2016 The author meticulously contextualises the experiences of Achebe and his peers as students at Government College Umuahia and argues for a... -
The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla's Voice of Agony by Abdilatif Abdalla 9780472076611
Booksplease Price: £63.25The extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony) is a collection of prison poems composed by Abdilatif Abdalla between 1969 and 1972. He originally wrote the poems while... -
Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics by Peter J. Kalliney 9780190455927
Booksplease Price: £45.60Commonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to interwar modernism, such as the BBC, influential... -
Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion by Julie MacArthur
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.10The transcript from this historic trial, long thought destroyed or hidden, unearths a piece of the British colonial archive at a critical point in the Mau Mau Rebellion. Its discovery and landmark... -
Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste by Toral Jatin Gajarawala
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism- progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental- in order to derive a literary genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit ("untouchable"... -
Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion by Julie MacArthur 9780896803176
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99The transcript from this historic trial, long thought destroyed or hidden, unearths a piece of the British colonial archive at a critical point in the Mau Mau Rebellion. Its discovery and landmark... -
Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora by H.W. Fairman 9781350360693
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £68.73The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a... -
Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature Adriaan van Klinken 9780271100401
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.49In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history and ongoing legacies of European colonialism and mission. But in recent decades,... -
Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature Adriaan van Klinken 9780271100395
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £55.80In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history and ongoing legacies of European colonialism and mission. But in recent decades,... -
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery by Yogita Goyal 9781479829590
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.32Winner, 2021 Rene Wellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, given by the International Society for the Study of... -
Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire by Saikat Majumdar 9780231156943
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37Everyday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are, therefore, common elements of the daily experience for... -
Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire by Saikat Majumdar 9780231156950
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Everyday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are, therefore, common elements of the daily experience for... -
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery by Yogita Goyal
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Winner, 2021 Rene Wellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, given by the International Society for the Study of... -
Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings by Michael Kelly 9781350294639
Booksplease Price: £70.89Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy... -
Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings Michael Kelly 9781350294622
Booksplease Price: £29.91Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy... -
Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Rey Chow 9780231151450
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world... -
The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988 by Susan Z. Andrade 9780822349211
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In The Nation Writ Small, Susan Z. Andrade focuses on the work of Africa's first post-independence generation of novelists, explaining why male writers came to be seen as the voice of Africa's new... -
Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Rey Chow 9780231151443
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.29Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world... -
Empires of Vision: A Reader by Martin Jay
Booksplease Price: £44.41Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and... -
Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Gregg Mitman
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88"A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world" (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Paul Farmer called "a gem of a social history... -
Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing by Andrew van der Vlies 9780198793762
Booksplease Price: £89.86Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that... -
Postcolonial Imaginations and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture by Chielozona Eze 9780739145067
Booksplease Price: £90.57The postcolonial African culture, as it is discoursed in the academia, is largely influenced by Africa's response to colonialism. To the degree that it is a response, it is to considerably reactive,... -
Oral Literary Performance in Africa: Beyond Text by Nduka Otiono 9780367630195
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range... -
Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Gregg Mitman
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.73An ambitious and shocking expose of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world's... -
Women, Literature and Development in Africa Anthonia C. Kalu 9780367136536
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book is a powerful exploration of the role of women in the evolution of African thinking and narratives on development, from the precolonial period right through to the modern day. Whilst the... -
The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements Joseph Godlewski 9781032708232
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress, and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities, adding an important sub-Saharan case study to...