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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • Las golondrinas de Kabul de Yasmina Khadra (Guía de lectura)

    Resumen y análisis completo

    Series series Guía de lectura
    ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Las golondrinas de Kabul, la premiadísima novela de Yasmina Khadra, que nos narra la desoladora historia de dos parejas que sobreviven en un Kabul devastado por los destrozos de la guerra y dirigido con mano de hierro por el régimen talibán. Una historia con personajes retratados de forma magistral que se asoman a los más terribles ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Sociocritique

    Essai d'analyse textuelle

    by Adama Samake ...
    La sociocritique est une théorie ouverte en raison de son caractère syncrétique. La variabilité des sociolectes d'un espace à l'autre fait d'elle un lieu d'élaboration d'outils méthodologiques. Ses ressources insuffisamment exploitées, de nombreuses zones d'ombre échappent à la critique. Le projet de cet ouvrage est par conséquent d'entreprendre un travail de réévaluation méthodologique, mais ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Études françaises. Volume 56, numéro 2, 2020

    De Charles Baudelaire à Kamel Daoud : lectures

    Fidèle aux dimensions interdisciplinaire et internationale de notre revue soucieuse de confronter des recherches conduites entre les domaines et entre les pays, ce numéro libre réunit des contributions dont les auteurs appartiennent à sept institutions universitaires, au Québec, au Canada, en Estonie, en Italie, en Norvège. Les huit études qui le composent portent sur huit auteurs différents, de ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • La Fille de Burger de Nadine Gordimer

    Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

    Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisCouronnée par le prix Nobel de littérature en 1991, l’œuvre de Nadine Gordimer couvre pratiquement l’histoire de l’Afrique du Sud depuis le début de l’apartheid jusqu’à sa fin.Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur La Fille de Burger de Nadine GordimerChaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Yamina Mechakra

    Entretiens et lectures

    Yamina Mechakra (1949 – 2013) a marqué son passage dans la littérature algérienne par la brièveté même de son oeuvre romanesque : La Grotte éclatée (Sned, 1979) et Arris (Algérie-Littérature-Action, 1999) ainsi que quelques nouvelles et contes publiés dans le quotidien El Moudjahid durant les années 1980. Psychiatre de formation, ses deux romans en portent l’empreinte. Folie, névrose, délire et ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • South African Literature's Russian Soul

    Narrative Forms of Global Isolation

    Series series New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
    How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and political isolation in two of the world's most renowned non-European literatures. In this book, Jeanne-Marie Jackson demonstrates how Russian writing's “Golden Age” in the troubled nineteenth-century has ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee

    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    J. M. Coetzee – novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) – is widely recognized as one of the towering literary figures of the last half century. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee offers the most comprehensive available exploration of the variety, range and significance of ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • In the Middle of Nowhere

    J.M. Coetzee in South Africa

    Relying on the author's personal recollections as well as on J.M. Coetzee's autobiographical and fictional works, this book deals with Coetzee's formation as a writer of international prominence, whose life and writing career began in South Africa. Drawing on Coetzee's "South African" writings from Dusklands through Disgrace, the book considers Coetzee's initial positioning in provincial South ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Literature of eSwatini

    This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the literature of eSwatini. It details a literary trajectory that begins with renditions of the country by early travelers and settlers and follows with the emergence of a national literature that is marked by early oral influences and molded by unique sociopolitical interests. Along the way, the author considers how contemporary writing by ... Read more

    $40.99 USD