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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthrals with its lively gossip, witty observations and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon...

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad is a collection of twelve short stories featuring characters with unique voices and stories that represent the diverse class, gender and ethnic melting pot that is Lagos. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad underscores with wit, humour, wisdom and sensitivity, the perils of trying to find lasting love and companionship in Africa's most notorious city.

Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l'harmonie familiale s'est disloquée en même temps que son "petit pays", le Burundi, ce bout d'Afrique centrale brutalement malmené par l'Histoire. Plus tard, Gabriel fait revivre un monde à jamais perdu. Les battements de cœur et les souffles coupés, les pensées profondes et les rires déployés, le parfum de citronnelle, les termites les jours d'orage, les jacarandas en fleur.

Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales is an extraordinary audiobook featuring Gillian Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, LeVar Burton, Ricardo Chavira, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Hayes, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra...

Omar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in this three-part drama, recorded entirely in Egypt's capital. Adapted from the novels of Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz, this gripping family saga chronicles the life of a downwardly-mobile middle class family as Egypt emerges from colonialism...

This is Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the ‘common reader’ - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She read, and wrote, as an outsider: a woman set...

“The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. “This being the ballet of the forgotten,” he writes as diasporic witness, “of refracted boundary points as venom.” The volume’s opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.

Do not think, because this collection of essays is titled Volume 2, that there is anything lesser or additional to it. Here is Virginia Woolf at her most entertaining and informative, relishing the portraits and insights she presents as she surveys a varied collection of individuals in English...

The award-winning author of Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head returns with a poetry collection of chemical intensity, where love—or the fever-dream of it—threatens to consume the most precious parts of a self. "Ya Allah if it / will keep my heart soft, please break / my heart...

Set against the devastating backdrop of the Biafran War (1967–1970)—where two million civilians, most of them children, died of starvation—this powerful novel draws on the little-known story of Ireland’s humanitarian response. While much of the world turned away, Irish missionaries remained, establishing feeding centres and clinics. When their last supply route was cut off, they carved an airstrip from the bush, risking everything to smuggle in aid and evacuate dying children. Before the war, before Africa, Valerie Corrigan believed her life would follow a different path.

Mine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, Phalafala follows the death of her grandfather during a historic juncture in 2018, when a silicosis class action lawsuit against the mining industry in South Africa was settled in favor of the miners.

Hierdie versameling gedigte uit die werk van Ilse van Staden is geselekteer uit bundels wat verskyn het van 2003 tot 2023. Die gedigte is uitgesoek deur die vertaler Peter Constantine en het oorspronklik verskyn in die tweetalige (Afrikaans-Duits) bundel quastenflosser (Freigeist Verlag, 2024)...

Um reencontro consigo mesmo e com aqueles que nos cercam, diante da delicada arte de seguir vivendo. Em Afagos e afins, Jairo Pereira apresenta uma poesia que nasce do corpo e retorna para ele como cuidado. Seus versos pulsam no ritmo do peito, entre feridas abertas e gestos de acolhimento, afirmando o afeto como força vital, ética e política.

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr erzählt in diesem funkelnden Roman von der Suche nach einem verschollenen Autor: Als dem jungen Senegalesen Diégane ein verloren geglaubtes Kultbuch in die Hände fällt, folgt er fieberhaft der Spur des rätselhaften Verfassers T.C. Elimane. Dieser wurde in den dreißiger Jahren als »schwarzer Rimbaud« gefeiert, nach rassistischen Anfeindungen und einem Skandal tauchte er jedoch unter.

Persoonlijke verhalen van Özcan Akyol, beter bekend als Eus. 'Mijn moeder, de kleine reus' is het liefdevolle verhaal van Eus en zijn familie. Alles laat hij langskomen: van alledaags ongemak met een overijverige moeder tot kleine en rake beschrijvingen van het menselijk tekort. De realiteit beschrijft hij met scherpte en humor. Zijn veelzijdige geest is nooit klaar met vragen stellen en prikkelt de lezer telkens om na te denken. Özcan Akyol is een van de belangrijkste stemmen van Nederland, en zijn unieke kijk op de wereld laat de lezer achter met een glimlach en hernieuwde levenslust.

Como as práticas culturais e políticas de autoria negras podem reescrever a história do Brasil? Se não reescrevê-la, talvez ressignificar momentos importantes de seu desenvolvimento, ou realçar aspectos que sofreram um apagamento? O que as produções de escritores, artistas e intelectuais negros revelam sobre a experiência subjetiva e as reivindicações por uma sociedade mais justa? Este curso explora a contribuição fundamental da autoria negra no Brasil, abordando como essas produções culturais questionam mitos históricos e combatem o racismo estrutural.

This is a minute-by-minute depiction of a typical night at a legendary monthly house party known as 'The Wickedest'. Here, we meet a vivid cast of characters, young and old, all surfing a revelry steeped in camaraderie, community, desire and a spirit of jubilant defiance. A modern epic, The Wickedest explores the institution of shoobs or house parties and their vital role within working-class communities. The poems range from classical English sonnets to experimental forms and are immersively interwoven with text messages and ephemera. 

In this electrifying debut poetry collection—written with the ferocity of Rita Dove’s groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah—a critically acclaimed award-winning talent explores a wide range of emotions, from anxiety to ecstasy reflecting the moon's phases, from Waning Gibbous to Full. Both...

Beautiful Minds is empathetically filled with emotions we can all identify with. It is a collection of poems that take us on a sequential journey and our personalised interpretations lead us to arrive at individualised destinations. If you desire to sojourn within pages of multiculturalism and poetic beauty then Beautiful Minds is where you must begin.

Biracial Woman Says Aren’t I a Black Woman Too details a biracial woman contemplating her identity regarding issues of race and society.