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Africa’s Fashion Diaspora
$45.00 Add to cartOne of the first books to examine the wide breadth of the African Diaspora and its influence on international fashion.
Tracing the local and global impact of Black Diasporic designers, Africa’s Fashi- Author: Way, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300270739
- Language: English
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Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display: Exhibition Histories 13
$35.00 Read moreA critical anthology on the mediation of Blackness through pivotal historical art exhibitions
The 13th volume of Afterall Books’ Exhibition Histories series explores Black identity through key historic
- Author: Adusei-Poku, Nana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 3753302384
- Language: English
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God Lifted Me
$25.00 Add to cart“God Lifted Me” is written to give my Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ all the glory, honor, praise, and gratitude my soul can muster. The poems reflect personal healing, affirmation
- Author: Hanks, Mary Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218231866
- Language: English
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Crowded House
$20.00 Read moreLike a Viewfinder with overlapping reels, Safia Jama examines the way inherited trauma–her parents and brother fleeing military dictatorship in Somalia–can overlay the present day: “when my husband
- Author: Jama, Safia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1957372052
- Language: English
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It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
$19.99 Add to cart“A fast-paced political thriller…. Wrong’s gripping, thoughtful book stands as both a tribute to Githongo’s courage and a cautionary tale.” —New York Times Book Review
“On one level, It’s Our Turn
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0061346594
- Language: English
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Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?
$45.00 Read moreBetween Afrofuturism, fantasy and postcolonialism: the most comprehensive monograph to date on the fantastical worlds of Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu takes viewers on journeys of material, psychological
- Author: Mutu, Wangechi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1636810055
- Language: English
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A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor: Selected Poems
$17.00 Add to cartFirst American publication of Syrian poet Maram al-Massri, presented in a bilingual Arabic-English edition.
- Series: Lannan Literary Selections
- Author: Al-Massri, Maram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556592647
- Language: English
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99 Zulu Proverbs and Sayings: A Collection of Classic Zulu Expressions, Wise Sayings, and Advice
$9.95 Add to cart99 Zulu Proverbs and Sayings is a collection of classic and modern-day wisdoms from the Zulu people of South Africa. These sayings have been a guide to the various aspects of their daily life for gene
- Author: Wilson-Mnyandu, Desaray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1736525263
- Language: English
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Statements
$16.95 Add to cartDeveloped in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard’s canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, … [more below]
- Author: Fugard, Athol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0930452615
- Language: English
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The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Osman, Ladan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803266863
- Language: English
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After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartAma Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intima… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Aidoo, Ama Ata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803296940
- Language: English
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El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture
$70.00 Read moreThe product of more than 30 years of research, this astounding and authoritative volume reveals the political metaphors underpinning El Anatsui’s magnificent abstract sculpture
Authored by two acclaime
- Author: Anatsui, El
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 8862087632
- Language: English
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Sacrament of Bodies
$17.95 Add to cart2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist
In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where ever- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Oriogun, Romeo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496219643
- Language: English
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The Black Maria
$16.00 Add to cartTimely and necessary poems investigate the historical and current realities of blackness in America, elegizing and celebrating human life.
- Author: Girmay, Aracelis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1942683022
- Language: English
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African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude
$16.99 Read moreThis critically acclaimed study offers a distinct, incisive look at how Senegalese philosopher Senghor sees in African art the most acute expression of Bergson’s philosophy.
L駮pold S馘ar Senghor (1906-- Author: Diagne, Souleymane Bachir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 163542321X
- Language: English
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Africanamerican’t
$16.00 Add to cartIf the question is America-and by extension, who is and what does it mean to be American? -AFRICANAMERICAN’T offers no answers. The CAN’T in the title suggests impossibility and that is precisely what
- Author: Falomo, Ayokunle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: December 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1953447325
- Language: English
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The Universal Tree and the Four Birds
$25.95 Add to cartThrough the story of the universal tree, representing the complete human being, and the four birds, representing the four essential aspects of existence, Ibn ‘Arabi explains his teaching on the nature… [more below]
- Series: Mystical Treatises of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi
- Author: Ibn ‘Arabi, Muhyiddin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 135
- Publish Date: October 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0953451399
- Language: English
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Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartGabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is bes… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Okara, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803286872
- Language: English
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Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America
$24.95 Add to cartFrederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the conce
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Opie, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0231146396
- Language: English
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Annancy Stories by Pamela Colman Smith
$13.50 Add to cartA collection of Jamaican folktales about Annancy the Spider as told by famous Tarot artist Pamela C. Smith with a foreward by the publisher.
- Author: Smith, Pamela C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0976961229
- Language: English
