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Afro-Atlantic Histories
$49.95 Add to cartA colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries
Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum
Afro-Atlantic Histories brings toge- Author: Pedrosa, Adriano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1636810020
- Language: English
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African Art
$29.95 Add to cartThe art of the Fang, the BaTeke, the BaKota, and other African peoples is extraordinarily vigorous and shows a brilliant sense of form. The substantial aesthetic impact that their works have had on th… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Willett, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: February 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0500203644
- Language: English
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Refractive Africa
$16.95 Read more“The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpe… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230279
- Language: English
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Teff Love
$24.95 Read moreFor those unfamiliar with Ethiopian cooking, Kittee Berns is on a mission to demystify these delicous dishes, ibreaking through language and cultural barriers to show how these foods are traditionally… [more below]
- Author: Berns, Kittee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 157067311X
- Language: English
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Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartA bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures
Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diak
- Author: Diaka, Ama Asantewa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0063092921
- Language: English
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African Artists: From 1882 to Now
$69.95 Add to cartAs featured in the New York Times, ARTnews, Colossal, Metropolis and New York Magazine’s The Strategist
A groundbreaking A-Z survey of the work of over 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based
- Author: Phaidon Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 183866243X
- Language: English
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Mine Mine Mine
$17.95 Add to cartMine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetic… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Phalafala, Uhuru Portia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235150
- Language: English
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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
$17.99 Add to cartCairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents’ belle 駱oque mansion by the Nile, t… [more below]
- Author: Rossant, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0743475615
- Language: English
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Mummy Eaters
$17.95 Add to cart2023 American Book Award
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Sherry Shenoda’s collection Mummy Eaters follows in the footsteps of a
2022 Longlist for the National Book Awards- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Shenoda, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232542
- Language: English
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Content Warning: Everything
$16.00 Add to cartThe first book of poems from an acclaimed young author, whose meteoric rise has already landed them on the cover of Time Magazine.
In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi-award-winning au… [more below]
- Author: Emezi, Akwaeke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596294
- Language: English
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War Songs
$17.00 Add to cartPoems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior
From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary war- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #41
- Author: Shadd?d, ?antarah Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 147985879X
- Language: English
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Exhale Again: A Self Care Coloring Book with Affirmations Celebrating Black and Brown Women Volume 2
$10.95 Add to cartIt’s Finally time to take time out for YOU with this (2nd Edition) Self Care coloring book by Latoya Nicole – Exhale Again: A Self Care Coloring Book with Affirmations
You can’t pour from an empty cup.
- Author: Nicole, Latoya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: May 21 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985619003
- Language: English
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Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk Humor
$12.95 Read moreJuha is an old Arab comic literary figure (known also to Persians and Turks) around whom countless popular anecdotes were written. He appears variously as preacher and beggar, porter and petty merchan… [more below]
- Author: Jayyusi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 156656641X
- Language: English
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Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition
$17.00 Add to cartPoems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates
Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in w- Series: Library of Arabic Literature
- Author: ??hir, Al-M?yid? Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1479825808
- Language: English
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Impostures
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Ca- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #65
- Author: Al-?ar?r?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1479810568
- Language: English
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African Myths of Origin
$19.00 Read moreGathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and despe… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Belcher, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0140449450
- Language: English
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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter’s Saga
$15.95 Add to cartThe first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language.
- Author: Fagunwa, D. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: September 24, 2013
- ISBN10: 0872866300
- Language: English
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Impostures
$48.00 Add to cartOne of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Ca- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #65
- Author: Al-?ar?r?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1479800848
- Language: English
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A Hundred and One Nights
$19.00 Add to cartA luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder
Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabi- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #10
- Author: Fudge, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1479873233
- Language: English
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Return to Dar Al-Basha
$9.95 Add to cartReturn to Dar al-Basha by the contemporary Tunisian author Hassan Nasr depicts the childhood of Murtada al-Shamikh and his return forty years later to his home in the medina or old city of Tunis. Afte
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Nasr, Hassan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0815608780
- Language: English
