The University of the West Indies Press, June 2014. Trade Paperback. Diasporas comprise an inescapable part of the human experience and few are more interesting and diverse than African diasporas. By providing a panoramic view across time and geographical space this collection of essays illustrates the inherent variability of African... More
University of Wisconsin Press, September 1991. Trade Paperback. The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger, and Ghana. Their long history of city-states and Islamic caliphates, their complex trading economies, and their cultural traditions have attracted the attention of historians, political economists... More
Three Rivers Press, May 1993. Trade Paperback. Basil Davidson is among the most widely read and respected of Africa's historians, and is, as Roland Oliver, author of The Cambridge History of Africa, has observed, "the one best trusted in Black Africa itself." Now, in this often brilliant, unfailingly provocative work... More
NYRB Classics, June 2001. Trade Paperback. At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through... More
Heinemann, October 1998. Trade Paperback. In A Green Place, A Good Place, David Schoenbrun depicts a complex dynamic of historical transformation characterized by the interplay of environmental, social, and philosophical change. This interplay of historical forces developed around an enormously varied tapestry of forms of power which Great Lakes peoples... More
Ohio University Press, May 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges. Book is in... More
Heinemann, November 1994. Trade Paperback. This path-breaking history of the African working class in Lourenco Marques proceeds from the assumption that Mozambican labor history was less about skills, wages, or productivity than it was about racism, human dignity, and contested masculinity. African attempts to improve their lives through hard work... More
Harvest Books, November 1978. Trade Paperback. Van der Post's incomparable knowledge of Africa illuminates this epic novel, set near the Kalahari Desert, about a boy on the verge of manhood, his experiences with the wonder and mystery of a still-primitive land, and his secret friendship with the Bushman whose life... More
McFarland, May 2014. Trade Paperback. One of the most detailed books on the Lost Boys of Sudan since South Sudan became the world's newest nation in 2011, this is a memoir of Majok Marier, an Agar Dinka who was 7 when war came to his village in southern Sudan. During... More
Blandford Press, 1981. Cloth. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine in mildly damp stained dust jacket. Quarto. UK reprint. Mild stains to boards. More
Picador, September 1999. Trade Paperback. An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder... More
Random House Inc, January 1992. Trade Paperback. Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle... More
Heinemann, September 1984. Trade Paperback. Set during the 1976 June riots in Soweto, this book provides a moving account of the tensions and turbulence, intrigue and confusion which enveloped the township and rocked the nation. More
Longman Group United Kingdom, June 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Random House Inc, August 1993. Trade Paperback. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study... More
Riverhead Hardcover, April 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's alter ego, the outspoken, worldly wise grandmother Madea, shares her thoughts on life, love, and everyone around her. Clean & solid without markings in like dust jacket. Complete number line. Inscribed on title page by Perry: 'Be Black Tyler'. More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1971. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in mildly worn dust jacket. This is 'number' line: 'A B C D E'. Top of text block tinted pale red. End pages tan. Boards black with gold & red lettering along spine. Sound binding. Clean, unmarked interior. NOT price clipped... More
