...more
Issue 56 delivers new work from Michelle Tea, Jose Antonio Vargas, T. C. Boyle, Dantiel W. Moniz, Genevieve Hudson, Jinc......more
...more
Following the success of the megabestselling Black Pearls, a collection of 365 African proverbs that illuminate the secr......more
...more
Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco s ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytell......more
...more
Brings to light the life and work of one of France’s most distinguished musicians in the most complete biography in any ......more
Robert Godfrey s major contribution to Xhosa-language studies is his revised and expanded edition, published in 1915, of......more
...more
The Chadian writer Nimrod--philosopher, poet, novelist, and essayist--is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in con......more
The Chadian writer Nimrod--philosopher, poet, novelist, and essayist--is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in con......more
Sindiwe Magona s novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who r......more
Sindiwe Magona s novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who r......more
Annotated, scholarly edition of the original landmark anthology, Voices of Ghana, containing poetry, plays, stories and ......more
...more
After decades of British rule Kenya has declared its independence, but drought and poor harvests still govern the villag......more
To honour the Ruler s birthday, the Free Republic of Aburiria set out to build a tower; a modern wonder of the world tha......more
This fabulous noir poem has been simply described as the reflections of an old recluse in busy downtown Cairo neighbo......more
The first of its kind, this volume collects more than seventy South African women’s voices, from 1652 until today. We sh......more
Djibouti, a hot, impoverished little country on the Horn of Africa, is a place of great strategic importance, for off it......more
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. ......more
...more
Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers, and schoolchildren to write,......more
...more
Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the ......more
The Manga is one of Africa’s most remote and wild regions: a hostile and unforgiving landscape inhabited by nomads like ......more
Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi (1875-1945) was the most prominent South African imbongi of his day, a Xhosa oral poet who de......more
A bright-eyed explorer and soldier in the German colonial army in Kamerun adopts Josef Nana Njike and takes him to Germa......more
Amagama Enkululeko Words for Freedom: Writing Life Under Apartheid is an anthology of short fiction, poetry, narrative j......more
2003年諾貝爾文學獎得主J. M. Coetzee,榮獲2016年曼布克獎提名最新力作! 當你搭船遠渡重洋,所有的記憶全被沖走,而你正展開一個新的人生……。就是這麼一回事。沒有過去、沒有歷史,當船停泊在港口時,...more
...more
For 40 years, between 1900 and 1939, John Solilo (1864-1940) was a prolific contributor to Xhosa-language newspapers und......more
...more
...more
The Hairdresser of Harare, which the New York Times Book Review called "a fresh and moving account of contemporary Zimba......more
The Hairdresser of Harare, which the New York Times Book Review called "a fresh and moving account of contemporary Zimba......more
In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation’s exiles a......more
What do you know about the Water Snake? -- When this question was presented to a group of South Africa s Upington women......more
David Livingstone Phakamile Yali-Manisi (1926-1999) was a Thembu imbongi, the most powerful exponent of the art of prais......more
A brilliant tour de force, The Knight and His Shadow tells the tale of Lat-Sukab s quest to find his former lover, Khad......more
Suburban and cosmopolitan, youthful and elderly, formal and experimental these binaries twist like threads which meet in......more
...more
Reflects on pain, healing, and hope after a near-death accident. Simple, rhymed verses offer therapy and beauty, marking......more
Told from the perspective of the everyday person, this book is a compilation of 38 essays written by South Africans refl......more
...more
The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize. For fifteen years it has supported and promoted ......more
...more
A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora - here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the bes......more
In a collection of over 100 poems, Rabindranath Tagore explores a variety of topics, from the pastoral to the divine. Th......more
Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers ......more
The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb examines literary texts by writers from the Maghreb and posit......more
There are those who believe black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through an......more
The Manga is one of Africa s most wild and remote regions: a hostile and unforgiving landscape inhabited by nomads. Situ......more
...more
...more
Black Odysseys explores creative works by artists of ultimately African descent, which respond to the Homeric Odyssey. C......more
Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer. Dere......more
Gives an ethnographic account of the complexities of the use of photography in Africa, both historically and in contempo......more
There is a growing interest in books by writers of African origin. These authors have often grown up or passed their ear......more
The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the p......more
A collection of poetry and amusing short stories taken from Susan Cook-Jahme’s blog, http: //barefootwhiteafrican.blogsp......more
China’s increasing role as an education donor in Africa, and the significance of this both economically and politically.......more
Analyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of demo......more
...more
...more
This family has always been in the background of the South s history. They have sweated and pushed themselves to help ot......more
Angola is a land of contrasts: equal to its turbulent history of Portuguese colonization and a civil war that spanned th......more
After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in ......more
A highly original treatment of significant topics in African Studies and beyond: violence, colonialism, landscape, memor......more
Variously understood as literary genius and enfant terrible of African literature, Dambudzo Marechera’s work as novelist......more
Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates the story of this vast continen......more
First Harvests are expressions of impressions on a variety of local and universal phenomena and states of being. It is t......more
This book is a powerful contribution to the genre of the prison memoir in Africa. Jack Mapanje represents the moving acc......more
The history of the medical and scientific debate about the etiology of the disease as it played out between diet theoris......more
A focus on some of the pioneers of African literary creation. This special issue of African Literature Today is devoted ......more
Argues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economi......more
...more
Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculos......more
Examines how regional integration can resolve the crises of the Greater Horn of Africa, exploring how it can be used as ......more