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Yoruba Proverbs
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /"The leopard's stealthy gait is not a result of cowardice; it is simply stalking a prey." (Do not mistake people's gentle nature for spinelessnes...
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Content Warning: Everything
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The Death of Vivek Oji,and Dear Senthuran—imagines ...
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If I Were Another
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Translation Mahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as one o...
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The Heart Of A Comet
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Heart of a Comet is a collection of poems and short stories offering the tale of Comet, who fell from the sky to an unfamiliar plane of exist...
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Welcome to Our Hillbrow: A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbingride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow-microcosm of all that is contra...
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Deluge
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge… Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a M...
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Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol
PaperbackOriginal price $19.80 - Original price $19.80Original price $19.80$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol are among the most successful African literary works. Song of Lawino is an African woman's lamentation over the c...
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Arabian Nights and Days: A Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, ...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic ...
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My Children! My Africa!
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth and his "old-fashioned" black teacher. Product ...
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Molora
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Based on the Oresteia by AeschylusIn this reworking of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Klytemnestra and Elektra face one another in a dramatic confrontation...
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Chameleon Aura
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Zimbabwean poet Billy Chapata provides a thought-provoking take on the universal experiences of love, pain, and what comes next through messages ...
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Master Harold and the Boys
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story, from "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking w...
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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
PaperbackOriginal price $7.00 - Original price $7.00Original price $7.00$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple,...
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The Archangel Michael in Africa: History, Cult and Persona
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /This book takes an interdisciplinary approach in order to understand angels, focusing on Africa and the cult and persona of the Archangel Michael...
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African Artists: From 1882 to Now
HardcoverOriginal price $69.95Original price $69.95 - Original price $69.95Original price $69.95Current price $57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /As featured in the New York Times, ARTnews, Colossal, Metropolis and New York Magazine’s The Strategist A groundbreaking A-Z survey of the work o...
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Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /This is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje ...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic ...
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Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This book argues that the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781531505486 ...
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Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969-2018
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa's second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United ...
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Intentionally Random
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /About Pastor Jonathan "YPJ" MillerMy nephew YPJ Miller is one of my favorite people on the planet. Not only has he been a trusted friend, tried and...
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Pilgrimage into the Womb of a Bantu Dynasty
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Pilgrimage into the Womb of a Bantu Dynasty is an epic poem that explores the philosophical and traditional religious system of a 14th-century Dyna...
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Melodrama
PaperbackOriginal price $6.95 - Original price $6.95Original price $6.95$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /Imagine trying to find the words you've been trying to say, but nothing seems to come. Those memories you once shared with your first love, your fi...
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CliffsNotes on Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Literature Notes
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /When you need help understanding a book, choose the name you've trusted for years-CliffsNotes. Gain the understanding you need with our in-depth li...
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