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Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon.A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial and Black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is...

A groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics This seminal text argues that the perceived passivity of the poor is the direct result of...

'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.'This is the story of Hana and her little sister Emi, who are part of...

'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job...

The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan EubanksWritten in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most eloquent...

The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece — a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs. The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of them hails...

'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.' This is the story of Precious, a sixteen-year-old illiterate Black girl who has never...

An award-winning collection from one of America's most distinguished twentieth-century poetsBlessing the Boatsdraws together poems from across Lucille Clifton's career, showcasing the stunning simplicity and grace with which she addressed...

The dramatic and entertaining account of the revolution in Cuba, from the architect of its success‘We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of...

The tale of a woman transformed by a Black healing community in 1970s America, publishing for the first time in Penguin Modern ClassicsThe American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma...

A tale of survival from one of the most beloved Nigerian writers, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first timeWhen Adah's dream of moving to England becomes a reality,...

Letters: 1947–1967A new selection of the letters of Che Guevera, from birth to death, revealing a new side to his personal and political lifeChe Guevara was an inveterate letter writer...

A feminist literary classic by one of Africa's greatest writersFirst published in 1979, The Joys of Motherhood is the story of Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman struggling in a patriarchal...

Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo RevolutionThe iconic study of the Haitian revolution by one of the founding fathers of Caribbean scholarship, now in Modern Classics for the first timeIn...