Poetry Train Africa is the third book to make up the Poetry Train Trilogy: A colorful combination of storytelling, poets......more
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Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi (1875-1945) was the most prominent South African imbongi of his day, a Xhosa oral poet who de......more
Africa, which was not long ago discarded as a hopeless and irrelevant region, has become a new ’frontier’ for global tra......more
A bright-eyed explorer and soldier in the German colonial army in Kamerun adopts Josef Nana Njike and takes him to Germa......more
Originally published in 1927, this text contains a translation of Adolf Erman s work into English. Erman s original inte......more
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The first book to provide a social and cultural history of bacteriology in colonial India, situating it at the confluenc......more
CREATIVE WRITING / SHORT STORY Kilimanjaro, kiliman, kiliman. Kilimanjaro, kiliman! Kilimanjaro, kiliman, kiliman. Kilim......more
"An Educated Mind is not easily Exploited." ― Henry Johnson Jr. In this mindblowing memoirs, Liberian-born American writ......more
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This meticulously researched, forcibly argued and accessibly written collection explores the many and complex ways in wh......more
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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
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For 40 years, between 1900 and 1939, John Solilo (1864-1940) was a prolific contributor to Xhosa-language newspapers und......more
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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural ......more
Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. A Nigerian immigrant to Senegal explo......more
Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rig......more
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In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home ......more
In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home ......more
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Analyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of demo......more
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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
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This collection of ten essays on African American philosophy addresses a wide range of issues beyond the bounds of tradi......more
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Telling Our Stories investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Car......more
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Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, ide......more
Examines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mu......more
The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa. Co......more
In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation’s exiles a......more
In African studies, the "Echeruoan ideal" is understood as an intervention or intellectual engagement characterized by 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
Do you hear the notes plucked as the griot tunes his hoddu? When a Peul griot from S n gal plays his hoddu he sings fami......more
The reincarnation of a legendary nineteenth-century Caribbean emperor as a contemporary African leader is at the heart o......more
This volume provides a combined index to the first 20 volumes of Index of Middle English Prose. In the absence of a sear......more
Suburban and cosmopolitan, youthful and elderly, formal and experimental these binaries twist like threads which meet in......more
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Ariel is a philosophical essay written by the Uruguayan author Jose Enrique Rodo and published in 1922. The book is a re......more
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Told from the perspective of the everyday person, this book is a compilation of 38 essays written by South Africans refl......more
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Henry James: A Critical Study is a book written by Ford Madox Ford, which offers a comprehensive analysis of the life an......more
The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope is a collection of the works of the famous 18th-century English poet, Alex......more
The Poetical Works Of Lord Byron is a comprehensive collection of the works of the famous poet, Lord Byron. The book inc......more
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Xenophon’s Anabasis, Books 1-4 (1910) is a classic work of ancient Greek literature, authored by Xenophon. The book is a......more