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  • Around The Globe - Must See Places in Africa

    African Travel Guide for Kids

    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    See wild animals in their natural habitat when you go on a virtual tour of Africa. This culture-rich expanse is a trove of knowledge on biodiversity and how wild animals and humans live and interact with each other. Use this book to raise awareness on the importance of wildlife. Grab a copy now! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

    A Routledge Study Guide

    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters.This guide to Chinua Achebe’s compelling novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Nigeria 10:1-10

    IN LIFE QUALITY MATTERS A LOT, AND IN GOVERNANCE QUALITY IS NEEDED TO MAKE THE LIFE OF THE END RECEIVERS WHICH ARE THE MASSES BETTER. IN THIS ARTICLE, I SHARED MY THOUGHTS AND THINKS WHICH I THINK IS THE PROBLEM WITH OUR DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE. AND THE SOLUTION TO IT. ... Read more

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  • Something Torn and New

    An African Renaissance

    Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Falling for Mr. Unexpected

    by Inge Saunders ...
    Can Emma fall for Mr. Unexpected when she doesn’t believe in Mr. Right or even Mr. Right Now…?Primary school teacher Emma Cupido compares the notion of “The One,” with believing in the Tooth Fairy. When the school holidays starts, she heads for her brother-in-law`s beach house in Strand, South Africa and stumbles on more than she bargained for.Hollywood heartthrob, Damian Davidson flees LA ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Le Choix de l'Ori

    by Louis Camara ...
    «Le très beau roman de Louis Camara nous fait voyager dans l'univers fabuleux de la cosmogonie yoruba. Un univers de mythes qui nous ramène à nous-mêmes. Le dramaturge Abdou Anta Ka disait qu'il fallait s'inspirer des mythes pour écrire notre histoire d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Les hommes ont tendance à changer, mais pas les dieux. Les dieux sont éternels.» – Ken Bugul, Le baobab fou, Riwan ou le ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

    $0.99 USD

  • 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

    $0.99 USD

  • Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Half of a Yellow Sun with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a gripping novel set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s, when the Igbo people attempted to secede from Nigeria to found the Republic of Biafra. The novel depicts ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • Getting Past Coetzee

    by Hedley Twidle ...
    Ten years ago, I was commissioned by a famous poet-editor to write a profile of Coetzee for a London review. At the time, the offer was a big break, and could have led to great things. I was fresh out of university and the editor was high-up at Faber and Faber, a talent scout for The New Yorker. But it never got written.Instead of providing a controlled and judicious survey of the oeuvre, I found ... Read more

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  • En attendant les barbares de John Maxwell Coetzee

    Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

    Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisL’expérience de la violence hante la fiction du romancier sud-africain J. M. Coetzee (né en 1940).Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur En attendant les barbares de John Maxwell CoetzeeChaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée. Cette présentation est ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Allan Quatermain Series,

    10 Adventure stories of Allan Quatermain

    Series series Unsecretbooks publication
    Allan Quatermain Series is written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.Allan Quatermain is ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oral Literature in Africa

    by Ruth Finnegan ...
    Series Book 1 - World Oral Literature Series
    Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa.This revised edition makes Finnegan’s ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new ... Read more

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  • Williams Sassine n'est pas n'importe qui

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Littératures des Afriques
    Cet ouvrage collectif, partiellement issu d’un colloque organisé à l’Université de Paris-Nanterre, entend rendre justice à l’écrivain guinéen Williams Sassine (1944-1997), qui n’a sans doute pas bénéficié jusqu’à présent de toute l’attention qu’il méritait. Par ce titre en forme de clin d’œil à l’un de ses romans, il s’agit de rappeler que son oeuvre, riche, diverse et surprenante par ses ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Au coeur du comparatisme

    Langues, littératures et cinéma

    Le recueil de textes que nous avons le plaisir d'offrir à Maxime Pierre Meto'o Etoua pour son départ en retraite mérité présente tout un éventail de recherches actuelles portant essentiellement sur le comparatisme. Il est un ensemble de contributions dont les auteurs sont soit ses collègues, soit ses anciens étudiants devenus ses collègues, soit des admirateurs ou bien des chercheurs en ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chris Abani

    Series series Contemporary World Writers
    This is the first full-length book on the work of ‘global Igbo’ writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abani’s fiction books, the two novellas Becoming Abigail (2006) and Song for Night (2007), the three novels GraceLand (2004), The Virgin of Flames (2007), and The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), which are read against the grain of Abani’s most important essays and ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Post-Apartheid Gothic

    White South African Writers and Space

    Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyzes the representation of space in recent works by South African writers. By combining analytical tools borrowed from Gothic studies with geocritical and postcolonial approaches, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain assesses the literary mechanisms utilized by Damon Galgut, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Lauren Beukes, Justin Carwright, and Lynn Freed to ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature

    This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa.The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and sexually marginalized in literary and artistic creations. Chapters and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Poems for a Century

    An Anthology on Nigeria

    In 2010, billions of naira were spent to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence since 1960. More naira are to be spent in 2014 to commemorate the centenary marking the nation's birth in 1914 from an amalgamation of diverse group of peoples, languages, cultures and expectations. As the conscience of the nation, writers are calling for a deeper introspection. A hundred years after ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Literature and Culture in Global Africa

    by Tanure Ojaide ...
    Engaging and interrogating the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. Tanure Ojaide takes a variety of European theoretical concepts and applies these to African literature, oral traditions, culture, sexuality, political leadership, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Written under the Skin

    Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa

    by Carli Coetzee ...
    Series Book 5 - African Articulations
    The author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood as trope for talking about change.In this book the author argues that a younger generation of South Africans is developing important and innovative ways of understanding South African pasts, and that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Learning Zulu

    A Secret History of Language in South Africa

    by Mark Sanders ...
    Series Book 55 - Translation/Transnation
    "Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex ... Read more

    $17.99 USD