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The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
$24.99 Add to cartA sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.
Africa has been cov- Author: Meredith, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1610396359
- Language: English
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Saka Saka: South of the Sahara – Adventures in African Cooking
$35.00 Read moreChef Anto Cocagne and Photographer Aline Princet take us on a unique food journey and introduce us to the best recipes from Gabon, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, and Ethiopia.
Chef Anto Cocagn- Author: Cocagne, Anto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718554
- Language: English
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Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy
$19.95 Add to cartEighteen prominent South African scholars reflect on the analogy between apartheid South Africa and contemporary Israel.
- Author: Jacobs, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1608465187
- Language: English
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Old Love Skin: Voices From Contemporary Africa
$15.95 Add to cartThis highly imaginative and inventive collection of poems by fifty-two African poets writing from thirty countries across the continent, offers powerful poems that do not flinch from exploring experie
- Author: Mukana Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: September 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0578397153
- Language: English
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Enebla: Recipes from an Ethiopian Kitchen
$35.00 Add to cartThis debut collection of 65+ recipes, vivid photography and family anecdotes is an accessible, authentic introduction to Ethiopian cuisine. Learn to make injera, wot stews, hearty tibs, and more.
Grow
- Author: Moges, Luladey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 173
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1771513624
- Language: English
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Study Guide to Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
$12.95 Add to cartA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, regarded as one of literature’s first counter narratives. As a classic novel writ… [more below]
- Series: Bright Notes
- Author: Intelligent Education
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1645420620
- Language: English
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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartRenowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for i… [more below]
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1101910518
- Language: English
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Feast: Food of the Islamic World: A James Beard Award Winning Cookbook
$60.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL COOKBOOK AWARD
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED COOKBOOK OF SPRING 2018 BY BON APPETIT, FOOD & WINE, EPICURIOUS, TASTING TABLE, ESQUIRE, GLOBE & MAIL, and PU
- Author: Helou, Anissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 0062363034
- Language: English
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
$19.99 Read moreA powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of t… [more below]
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703219
- Language: English
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Between Good and Evil: The Stolen Girls of Boko Haram
$29.99 Read moreA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“This work is important and astonishing, but it is also a riveting read.” –Louise Penny, author of A World of Curiosities and the Inspector Gamache novels
Behind the Beautiful For
- Author: Fung, Mellissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 144345608X
- Language: English
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Origins of the Syma Species
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu’s collection is a brief history of where he came from: Syma, a neg
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Oburumu, Tares
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496237021
- Language: English
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Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night
$24.00 Add to cartSallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their Gullah culture. Although technology and development were slow in coming to Daufu… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Sallie Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0807858439
- Language: English
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The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power
$65.00 Add to cartThe African Gaze is a comprehensive exploration of postcolonial and contemporary photography and cinema from Africa. Drawing from archival imagery and documents, interviews with the photographers and
- Author: Sall, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0500025398
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh
$22.00 Add to cartComposed over 2,500 years, lost in the deserts of Iraq for 2,000 more, Gilgamesh presents a palimpsest of ancient Middle Eastern cultic and courtly lyrics and lore. The story of a visionary journey be
- Author: Kendall, Stuart T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0983697205
- Language: English
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The Threshold: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt’s premier poet.
Iman Mersal is Egypt’s–indeed, the Arab world’s–great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voi- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607850
- Language: English
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Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems
$16.00 Read moreIn Ghana’s Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola’s rhapsodic debut, the in
- Author: Abimbola, Kweku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452278
- Language: English
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The Food of Morocco
$60.00 Add to cartWinner of the James Beard Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award
“A cookbook by Paula Wolfert is cause for celebration. Ms. Wolfert may be America’s most knowledgeable food person and her books are fu
- Author: Wolfert, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0061957550
- Language: English
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It’s a Continent: Unravelling Africa’s History One Country at a Time
$21.99 Read more‘. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It’
- Author: Ukata, Chinny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1529376785
- Language: English
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Your Crib, My Qibla
$17.95 Add to cartDerek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner
Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language ab
Julie Suk Award Winner
Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Dzukogi, Saddiq
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496225775
- Language: English
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Deluge
$17.00 Add to cart“To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge… Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma.” –Nao… [more below]
- Author: Chatti, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595891
- Language: English
