Africa
Africa
Ex absurdo sequitur quodlibet
Usually shunned, condemned or narcotised as quickly as acknowledged, the absurd remains nevertheless a large part of reality. Loyal to their poetic pen, Teena and Yanee Dewoo choose to embrace and transcribe a fragment thereof in this book, in the...
$33.00
Epistle to Afrophobic South Africa
When many African countries ganged up against the white apartheid regime, nobody thought Black South Africans, in a jiffy, would barbarously unleash Afrophobia against their own Blacks brethren they derogatorily call makwerekwere or foreigners. This poesy chides South Africans and Africans who...
$54.00
Epigrams
Bill F. Ndi, poet, playwright, storyteller, literary critic, translator, historian of ideas and mentalities and academic is household name in Anglophone Cameroonian poetry. He has held teaching positions in several universities in Australia, France, and elsewhere. He now teaches at...
$41.00
Environmental F(r)iction: The Illusion of Progress / The Progress of Illusion
So much ink has already been spilled on the issues of climate change. In this collection, Bill F. Ndi blends environmental sciences with poetic art in a bid to make the strange ordinary and the ordinary strangely extraordinary. The poems...
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Enslaved: Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya
$76.00
Enslaved: Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya
Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelled with a digital code, they are moved along in the possession of the traffickers through a...
$76.00
Eni and Other Poems
Eni kaleidoscopically unveils human intrigues, predicaments and woes. It brings into sharp focus the most dreaded products of cruel oppression, exploitation, and destruction--the worst forms of human degradation and sufferings. However, it also sheds beams of hope, celebrating optimism in...
$29.00
Echoes of Grace
Pearl, a young woman, embarks on a journey of self-discovery, navigating the complexities of class, culture, and identity. Guided by the resolute support of her mentor, Father Honeywell, she confronts societal expectations, overcomes personal setbacks, and makes difficult choices that...
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Echoes of a Whisper
Lughano Mwangwegho's Echoes of a Whisper is an imaginative array of poetic verse steeped in Africa and tackling the fraught space of being betwixt and between, within and without, memory and the present. Love runs avidly as a theme throughout and imagery...
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Echo The Giant
"From 'Ode to Harry' to 'Black on White Screams, Dewoo's poems ripple along psycho-cultural dimensions, where the terseness of her language rumbles, her epigraphic-like renditions compel, and the topicality of her themes flickers as the profane and the sacred roar...
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New Orleans Pharaoh: A Tribute to Dr. Maurice M. Martinez
This poetry book is a tribute to my father Dr. Maurice M. Martinez, Renaissance Man, Professor Emeritus UNCW, Former Professor Hunter College, CUNY, Protégé of Langston Hughes, Second African American in History to publish a Photobook that also contained Poetry,...
$25.95
From Man To Superman: Dr. John Henrik Clarke vs. Herman Cain: The most in-depth discussion of race and African history since J.A. Rogers’ book From Superman to Man
This book is the sequel to J.A. Rogers’ book: From Superman to Man and is an introduction to the field of African Studies. Here are 2 reviews by prominent scholars in the field of African Studies and former colleagues of...
$34.95
Akhenaten's Dreams
From the Author of the books: The Real Wakandas of Africa and The Great Wall of AfricaAkhenaten was the first Egyptian (Kemet's first) pharaoh to unite a nation under the concept of one God. In this thrilling work of historical...
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Dust, Spittle and Wind
Dust, Spittle & Wind is a story of youth, dreams of innocence and transcendence told within a postcolonial setting. It follows Olu Ray, the main character of the novel through a bitter-sweet journey of loss and self-realisation. The novel focuses...
$41.98
Durorp-English Dictionary
Durorp-English Dictionary is probably the first attempt at compiling a comprehensive Dictionary of Durorp, the language of the people of Korup. It is a bilingual Dictionary aimed at stimulating literary interests in the study and development of Durorp as a...
$58.00
Diminishing Corruptive Practices in the Public Hospital System of Cameroon: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study
Corrupt business and management practices exist at all levels within the public hospital system (PHS) in Cameroon and are of increasing concern among the polity as the perceptions of key stakeholders who work within the system has not been examined...
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'Dignity of Labour' for African Leaders: The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School on the Gold Coast
From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. This richly researched book untangles the discourse on education for African leaders, which involved diverse actors such as colonial...
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Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa: Beyond the Dichotomy (African Potentials)
In Africa, people striving to live and survive under the complex relationship between development and subsistence have been directly or indirectly feeling influences of globalisation. As Africa's involvement in globalisation deepens, social phenomena are apparently synchronizing or becoming more similar...
$79.00
Detective Fiction and The African Scene. From The Whodunit? To The Whydunit?
From its very inception, detective fiction has enjoyed a great popularity among the young and the old, the learned and the not so learned. By some unfortunate stroke of irony, its respect has not kept pace with its enormous popularity....
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Death of Hardship
Death of Hardship kaleidoscopically unveils human intrigues, predicaments and woes. It brings into sharp focus the most dreaded products of cruel oppression, exploitation, and destruction-the worst forms of human degradation and sufferings. However, it also sheds beams of hope, celebrating...
$41.99
Dangerous Pastime
The best way to understand a people is to live with the people; the best way to live with the people is to share with the people; and the best thing to share with the people is what the people...
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Dance of the Vampires and Six Other Plays
This crowning collection brings together seven of Bole Butake's finest plays since 1984, namely: Dance of the Vampires; Family Saga; Lake God; Betrothal Without Libation; And Palm Wine Will Flow; The Rape of Michelle; and Shoes. More than an academic,...
$61.00
The Cowrie Necklace. A Collection of Poems
The Cowrie Necklace is a graphic account of the struggle for meaning in life. The poems are a carefully woven sizzling and cracking attempt to mirror society. The poet runs a long and wide gamut of poetic themes which include...
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The Convert
"This play tackles the theatrically attractive but ethically complex issue of Christian fundamentalism. Nyamnjoh, as a sociologist is well qualified to explore the social problems and psychological pressures which give rise to the born-again phenomenon, and the strong appeal of...
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Content of Character: Poetics of Redemption
In Content of Character: Poetics of Redemption, we argue that all that is necessary for evil to thrive in contemporary society is for decent people to do nothing. We contend that silence is not an option in contemporary society where...
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Conflictualités Contemporaines: Sécurité Globale Et Maintien De La Paix : Penser La Puissance Africaine Au 21e Siècle
Comment penser la puissance africaine et les enjeux de la transition hégémonique globale au 21e siècle ? Telle est la question thématique centrale de cet ouvrage qui se veut un cahier de recherche doctrinale en polémologie et en irénologie endogènes,...
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Companion of Life. Poems from Zimbabwe
This is a dense, erudite collection of finely crafted poems that powerfully reflect on vices such as war, bad governance, deforestation, dissipation, greed, oppression and cruelty. The poems also tackle other important phenomena of life such as love, anxiety, weather,...
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Coils of Mortal Flesh
The diverse voices in the poems in this collection are unified in the single voice of the omnipresent persona who appears to be searching for a collective voice, some kind of order or rhythm that would impose meaning to life....
$37.50
The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories
The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories is a sundry, marvellous collection of short stories that reflect and capture diverse life experiences. Mabeza and Mawere offer with great dexterousness a snapshot, richness, and practical potentialities of childhood to...
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Child of Earth
Child of Earth is the story of Achu, a young African boy who loses his mother when he is still a baby. He is raised by his father in a household teeming with wives and children. Then the father dies...
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The Chant of Savant
The chant of savant is a philosophical soliloquy that aims to awaken and chastise Africans to know and fight for their rights vis-a-vis humungous resources Africa is endowed with without benefiting from them. Mhango gawks at, and guesstimates on why...
$40.00