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    Africa39 (PL)

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    New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong''o, and...

    Grievance: In Fragments

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    Reveals how America is a nation founded on grievance. Grievance is an American mode of being that can be traced back to the Declaration of Independence, that is at the...

    The Cleaner

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    A beautifully sinister, propulsive page-turning adult debut that explores themes of obsession, identity and privilege, about a woman who takes a job as a cleaner - but what she's really...

    The House of Hunger

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    'One of African literature's most fascinating and unorthodox figures' Brian Chikwava 'When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded...

    Dying for Freedom

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    Political Martyrdom in South Africa (After the Postcolonial) What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one’s commitment to one’s freedom? What happens when the opposite of freedom is...

    The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act

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    African Culture and Decolonization (Critical South) This book is a collection of essays and speeches by Mário Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist and political activist and...

    Our Beautiful Darkness

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    Translated from Portuguese by Lyn Miller-Lachmann A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in Our Beautiful Darkness, a fully...

    Digging Stars

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    A National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection “Tshuma is nuanced yet explosive as she explores the intersection of science, identity and grief.… [A] smart, incisive novel.” ―Weike Wang, New...

    The Lions' Den

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2024 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE A remarkable, big-hearted debut from Zambian-American writer Iris Mwanza set in 1990's Lusaka in which a young lawyer must fight for...

    Waiting for the Rain

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    In this poignant novel, award-winning author, Charles Mungoshi, explores the consequences of colonialism in 1960s Zimbabwe. Waiting for the Rain asks how a nation can look to the future and...

    Black Sunlight

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    In this dark and deeply radical novel, Dambudzo Marechera offers a visceral account of a photojournalist's entanglement with a terrorist organisation. In an unnamed totalitarian state, the members of Black...

    Ride or Die

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    Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu's adrenaline-packed joyride of a debut is an ode to Gen Z and chaotic teens—perfect for fans of Grace D. Li, Ebony Ladelle, and Baby Driver. Best friends Loli...

    A Walk in the Night

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    In this previously banned collection of seven short stories, Alex La Guma vividly reveals the plight of the poor and oppressed in apartheid South Africa. Characterised by his striking style...

    An Image in a Mirror

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    Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Set between Uganda and South Africa, An Image in a Mirror is the story of Nyakale and Achen, identical twins pulled apart by their mother’s...

    We Have Everything We Need To Start Again

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    Illustrated by Adriana Bellet Press both feet to the ground.Place your hand on your heart.You are brave and capable.It will always be your time.An empowering and uplifting collection of poems...

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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    'Grand and gorgeous and brave.' New York Times'Lively, beautiful... A richly imagined coming of age treat.' Daily MailREBECCA MEETS THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES IN THIS GORGEOUSLY ATMOSPHERIC NOVEL SET ON SOUTH AFRICA'S EASTERN COASTEndlessly...

    Scatterlings

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    A BEST NEW BOOK from *Vanity Fair *The Root *Vulture *People *The Washington Post *Christian Science Monitor *Los Angeles Times *Essence A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Pick!...

    Long Walk To Freedom

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    'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack Obama 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book' The Times...

    All That It Ever Meant

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    An outstanding YA novel of family love, loss, and life lived between two cultures, by an astonishing, super-stylish new voice.'I'm going to tell you exactly how everything happened. Baba always says, Mati mwana'ngu, I...

    Ndima Ndima

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    From debut Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Mapepa comes the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughters—and her community—through times of drought and violence in...

    The Burning Land

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    The exhilarating debut political thriller from the award-winning BBC broadcaster George Alagiah. 'It was never meant to be like this. Sabotage, yes. Propaganda, yes. All of that and more -...

    This Mournable Body (Nervous Conditions #3)

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    Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize In this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead...

    The Theory of Flight

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    Winner of the 2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize 'On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment...

    The Book of Not (Nervous Conditions #2)

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    The second novel from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of This Mournable Body and Nervous Conditions continues Tambu's story.As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year...

    When the Ground is Hard

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    This CBCA short-listed book also won the LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature and is a stunning and heartrending mystery set in a Swaziland boarding school about two...

    Sugar Town Queens

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    From the award-winning author of the CBCA shortlisted When the Ground Is Hard, comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and an uplifting story of how friendship saves and...

    Runaways

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    Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both. ‘We don’t choose where we’re born. Geography ends up being everything.’ Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years...

    Our Separate Ways

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    Addressing gender alone won't help women rise to the top. Although women come from widely diverse backgrounds, they share a common assumption upon entering the workforce: 'I have a chance.'...

    Born a Crime

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    Stories from a South African Childhood #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and...

    I Am a Girl from Africa

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    A memoir of empowerment, community and hope A powerful memoir about a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world. She squeezes my hand and...

    Soul Sisters

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    Soul Sisters by Lesley Lokko is a rich, intergenerational tale of love, race, power and secrets which centres on the lifelong friendship between two women: Scottish Jen McFadden and South...

    History of South Africa

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    1902 to the Present*** Winner of the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences non-fiction book award ***South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and...

    A Wreath for Udomo

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    Introduced by Petina Gappah, a lost classic by a radical Black South African author: as exiled African activists in post-war London plot to revolutionise their native countries, idealism and tragedy...

    Blood to Poison

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    An epic South African fantasy from award-winning author Mary Watson, for fans of Children of Blood and Boneand The Gilded OnesSeventeen-year-old Savannah is cursed. It's a sinister family heirloom; passed...

    Transparent City

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    Translated by Stephen HenighanIn a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic...

    The Boy Who Never Gave Up

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    In 1994, sixteen-year-old Emmanuel Taban walked out of war-torn Sudan with nothing, and nowhere to go. In the preceding months he was abducted and then tortured by government forces, who...

    We Need New Names

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    'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is...

    The Old Drift

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    An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn't know you were waiting for and...

    Black Lion

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    Alive in the Wilderness Black Lion begins in rural South Africa where a deeply traumatic childhood experience — a cousin being dragged away by a crocodile — should have turned...

    Children of Sugarcane

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    Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyricism, Children of Sugarcane paints an intimate and wrenching...

    Hosting with the Lazy Makoti

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    A brand-new collection of recipes from South Africa's bestselling chef and social media sensation.Mogau Seshoene aka the Lazy Makoti is the South African Nadiya Hussain, with a huge social media...

    Black and Female

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    Being categorised as Black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more than merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.This paradigm shifting...

    Empowered

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    Learn how to live an empowered life with education activist and empowerment YouTuber, Vee Kativhu.From experiencing grief and leaving her home country of Zimbabwe for the UK, to attending disruptive...

    Letter to Petya Dubarova

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    Just like the brief life and oeuvre of iconic Bulgarian poet Petya Dubarova, every page of this short novel pulsates with feelings.In Letter to Petya Dubarova, South African poet and...

    Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights #2)

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    The spellbinding sequel to The Library of the Dead, featuring ghosts, magic, danger – and the quick-witted Ropa Moyo, as she tackles another thrilling mystery. Some secrets are meant to...

    In Bibi's Kitchen

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    Grandmothers from eight eastern African countries welcome you into their kitchens to share flavorful recipes and stories of family, love, and tradition in this transporting cookbook-meets-travelogue.In this incredible volume, renowned...

    The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights #1)

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    When ghosts talk, she will listen . . . Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker — and she now speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to the...

    The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle (Edinburgh Nights #3)

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    Ghostalker Ropa Moyo and her rag-tag team of magicians are back in The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, the third book in the spellbinding Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu.  She came...

    Moon Witch, Spider King (Dark Star Trilogy #2)

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    The second novel in Marlon James's revolutionary DARK STAR TRILOGY In this mighty follow-up to his number one bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Booker-winner Marlon James once again draws on...