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The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila Synopsis The Arrangers of Marriage by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie My new husband carried the suitcase out of the taxi and led the way into the brownstone, up a flight of brooding stairs, down an airless hallway with frayed carpeting, and stopped at a door. The... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the Northern Horn, 1000 BC - Ad 1300 (Eastern African Studies) by David W. Phillipson Publisher Comments Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. This book seeks to apply a common... (read more) Your price: $70.00 New - Hardcover
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Tell Me Friends Tell Me Friends: Contemporary Stories and Plays of Tanzania Contemporary Stories and Plays of Tanzania by Lilian Osaki Synopsis This third volume of Tell Me, Friends collects stories and plays written by students and staff at the University of Dar es Salaam between 2006 and 2008. The stories in the collection are: "Our Man" by Saida Yahya-Othman; "The Window Seat" by Benjamin... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Africa South - Viewpoints, 1956-1961 Book News Annotation Africa South was a major non-partisan organ of opposition to the apartheid government of South Africa. The 21 issues of the journal altogether published some 460 essays, of which 57 are reprinted here. Among the topics are South Africa's struggle for... (read more) Your price: $55.00 New - Trade Paper
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Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) by Eric Ross Publisher Comments A book about contemporary urban design, a metaphysical worldview and a cultural process that transcends the pre-colonial/colonial/post-colonial divides.... (read more) Your price: $98.95 New - Hardcover
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Higher Education in Tanzania: A Case Study (Higher Education in Africa) by Brian Cooksey Publisher Comments The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa commissioned case studies of higher education provision in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, as part of its effort to stimulate enlightened, equitable, and knowledge-based... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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A Labour of Moles (Sylph Editions - Cahiers) by Ivan Vladislavic Publisher Comments "I found myself in the thick of things. I shut my eyes experimentally, opened them again. If I was dreaming, the scene should change – but no, everything was exactly as it had been before." So begins A Labour of Moles, by one of South... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013 by Caine Prize Caine Prize Publisher Comments The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize. It has helped launch the careers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Segun Afolabi, Leila Aboulela, Brian Chikwava, Binyavanga Wainaina, and many others. The 2013 collection includes the... (read more) Available August 2013 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Images Out of Africa: The Virginia Garner Diaries of the Africa Motion Picture Project by Virginia Garner Publisher Comments In 1938, Virginia and Ray Garner began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons. This book features Virginia Garner's diaries, which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s and include rich descriptions of cross... (read more) Your price: $44.75 New - Trade Paper
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Writing African History (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) by John Edward Philips Publisher Comments Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to African history for the next generation and as... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Caine Prize for African Writing 2012 (Caine Prize: Annual Prize for African Writing) by Caine Prize Caine Prize Publisher Comments The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize. For over ten years it has supported and promoted contemporary African writing. Keeping true to its motto "Africa will always bring something new," the prize has helped launch the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best of Gowanus: New Writing from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean by Thomas J. Hubschman Publisher Comments Short stories and essays from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe by Jane Morris Publisher Comments The collection, Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe, features sixteen Zimbabwean writers - Raisedon Baya, NoViolet Bulawayo, Diana Charsley, Mapfumo Clement Chihota, Murenga Joseph Chikowero, John Eppel, Fungai Rufaro Machirori, Barbara Mhangami... (read more) Your price: $28.25 New - Trade Paper
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New Writing from Africa 2009 by J. M. Coetzee Synopsis Whats on the minds of African writers? The South African chapter of PEN International asked this question, and this volume collects the answer they received. More than 800 pieces of new writing were submitted in response to the call for entries for the... (read more) Your price: $42.25 New - Trade Paper
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Long Time Coming. Short Writings from Zimbabwe by Jane Morris Publisher Comments Long Time Coming brings together short stories and poems from thirty-three writers that provide snapshots of this turbulent period in Zimbabwe's history. Snapshots of living in a country where basic services have crumbled: where shops have no food, taps... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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War & the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia: The Making of Enemies & Allies in the Horn of Africa (Eastern Africa) by Kjetil Tronvoll Publisher Comments Images of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa. Filtered through a mostly international media the information of African wars is confined to narrow categories of explanation... (read more) Your price: $85.50 New - Hardcover
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Bards and Tyrants. Essays in Contemporary African Writing by Chin Ce Publisher Comments Bards and Tyrants is a collection of essays and book review presentations in literary journals and publisher forums within and outside Nigeria in the last decade by Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, Chin Ce. In his preface to the volume Ce admits of... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia (Eastern Africa) by Gunther Schlee Publisher Comments Focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. It is based on anthropological field research over a period of thirty-four years and attempts a synthesis of historical findings and political... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Hardcover
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Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing by Rob Spillman Publisher Comments A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Women Writing Zimbabwe by Irene (edt) Staunton Publisher Comments The fifteen stories in Women Writing Zimbabwe offer a kaleidoscope of fresh, moving, and comic perspectives on the way in which events of the last decade have impacted on individuals, women in particular. Several stories (Tagwira, Ndlovu and Charsley... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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