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  • Yet Being Someone Other

    Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was. ... Read more

    $14.99 NZD

  • Animal Farm

    by George Orwell ...
    ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution ... Read more

    $1.99 NZD

  • Decolonising the Mind

    The Politics of Language in African Literature

    Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching of literature.'East Africa [Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda]: EAEP ... Read more

    $26.99 NZD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

    by Elaine Savory ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies among them. This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of her life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece, ... Read more

    $43.99 NZD

  • Return to my Native Land

    by Aime Cesaire ...
    Translated by John Berger, Anna Bostock ...
    A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Césaire considered this work a "break into the forbidden," at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity.More praise:"The ... Read more

    $21.99 NZD

  • Nostromo

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Series series The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time - Starbooks Classics Collection
    Nostromo (full title Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard) is a 1904 novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly.In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Nostromo 47th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "I'd rather ... Read more

    $0.99 NZD

  • The Truth About Awiti

    by CP Patrick ...
    There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with ... Read more

    $4.12 NZD

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (Illustrated + Audiobook Download Link + Active TOC)

    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

    $1.64 NZD

  • Summarized & Analyzed: "A Long Walk to Water"

    by Student World ...
    Series series A Quick Guide
    In this book we have included introduction to the book, plot overview, about major characters, complete summary, and critical analysis.Although we know that some students do not want to read the original text of “A Long Walk to Water “ because they prepare only to pass their exams or tests, yet we insist that they read the original text of the book so that they can understand the subtle aspects of ... Read more

    $4.97 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poor No More

    by Robert Ruark ...
    Poor No More is a story about Craig Price, a rural North Carolinian who grew up in poverty. As an adult, Price evolved into a tycoon who had amassed a financial fortune. His lifestyle and persona, at first, is appealing to many, yet in the end, he misleads and uses business partners and girlfriends. Unsurprisingly, his family life is a mess. While Craig Price accumulates more and more wealth and ... Read more

    $0.99 NZD

  • Au sortir de la nuit…

    Comores : récits, nouvelles, contes d’oppression et d’espoir

    Ce livre compile des récits, nouvelles, contes et une pièce de théâtre exprimant la souffrance, la frustration, l’aspiration à la justice et à la liberté aux Comores. Il décrit la situation dans les trois îles indépendantes à différentes époques politiques, y compris les tyrannies issues de putschs et le mercenariat de Bob Denard, ainsi qu’à Mayotte, restée française, et en France, où vit une ... Read more

    $19.99 NZD

  • Sami Tchak

    Les voies d’un renouveau

    Series Book 53 - Documents pour l'Histoire des Francophonies
    Le 12 mars 2017 Sami Tchak regagne Paris, de retour du Togo où l’on vient de lui rendre hommage, d’abord dans son village natal, en présence d’une vingtaine de journalistes, de dix écrivains, de l’Ambassadeur de l’Union européenne, du Conseiller personnel du Président de la République et de l’ancienne ministre de la Culture ; puis à l’Université de Lomé, par la remise d’un diplôme d’excellence par ... Read more

    $81.99 NZD

  • Literary Expressions of African Spirituality

    With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals ... Read more

    $81.99 NZD

  • Acta Germanica

    50 Jahre / Years – Jubilaeumsausgabe / Anniversary Edition

    Series Book 44 - Acta Germanica / German Studies in Africa
    Das 50-jährige Jubiläum des «Germanistenverbandes im südlichen Afrika*»* wird in dem ersten Teil «50 Jahre SAGV» und den beiden Rubriken zu den Verbandszeitschriften «Acta Germanica*»* und «DUSA/e-DUSA*»* gewürdigt. Die nachfolgenden wissenschaftlichen Beiträge sind wie immer unter den Überschriften «Afrika schreiben» und «Allgemeine Beiträge» versammelt. Die Rubrik «Afrika schreiben» vertritt ... Read more

    $114.99 NZD

  • Muslims beyond the Arab World

    The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya

    by Fallou Ngom ...
    Series series AAR Religion, Culture, and History
    Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal. The book demonstrates how the development of the 'Ajami literary tradition is entwined with the flourishing of the Muridiyya into one of sub-Saharan Africa's most powerful and dynamic Sufi organizations. It ... Read more

    $275.99 NZD

  • Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature

    Series series Western African Studies
    Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this book shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation.Laura T. ... Read more

    $55.99 NZD

  • The Africans Late State Matters

    The Africa Politics has hindered the development of the nation. African's lack of understanding of politics and its importance. Politics accepts people's opinions and the rule of many. Some African's politicians are fraudulent. They don't care about the business of politics; they only concern themselves with their personal interests. This stifles the nation's development. I see them as ‘eaters' ... Read more

    $2.97 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life of Walatta-Petros

    A Seventeenth-Century Biography of an African Woman, Concise Edition

    This concise edition of the biography of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592 to 1642 and led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism. This is the oldest-known book-length biography of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century, and one of the earliest stories ... Read more

    $22.99 NZD

  • Contemporary African Cinema

    Series series African Humanities and the Arts
    African and notably sub-Saharan African film’s relative eclipse on the international scene in the early twenty-first century does not transcend the growth within the African genre. This time period has seen African cinema forging a new relationship with the real and implementing new aesthetic strategies, as well as the emergence of a post-colonial popular cinema.Drawing on more than 1,500 articles ... Read more

    $42.99 NZD

  • Reading Postcolonial Theory

    Key texts in context

    This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the ‘moments of their making’ and delineates the different threads that bind postcolonial studies. Each chapter presents a comprehensive discussion of a major text and contextualises it in the wake of contemporary themes and debates. The volume:Studies major texts by foremost scholars — ... Read more

    $98.99 NZD

  • Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture

    Archiving Postcolonial Minorities

    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    At the end of French colonization in Algeria, four categories of people held French citizenship or had strong ties with France: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. The end of the War of Independence exiled most of them from Algeria, traumatized them in various ways, and transferred many to metropolitan France. Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture: Archiving Postcolonial ... Read more

    $196.99 NZD

  • Reading Migration and Culture

    The World of East African Indian Literature

    by Dan Ojwang ...
    This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature, it opens up and reflects upon issues of alienation, modernity, migration, diaspora, memory and nationalism. ... Read more

    $82.99 NZD

  • Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa

    Literary and Cultural Representations

    by Oduor Obura ...
    Series series Routledge African Studies
    This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa.Moving away from portrayals of eastern African childhood as characterised by want, the author argues for a differentiated and pluralist nature of the eastern African childhood. Taking a chronological approach, the author provides a multidisciplinary critical reading of Africanist ... Read more

    $84.99 NZD

  • Alienation and Literature

    Discursive Maps in the West African Experience

    Alienation and Literature is concerned with the problem of change in the society and how it is perceived by the West African writer. It aims to define and identify the various facets of alienation and demonstrate how they are manifested in the lives of people and in the imagination of creative writers. Critics of modern West African literature have concentrated their efforts on the cultural and ... Read more

    $9.99 NZD