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On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home...
Paperback
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica...
Edition
In A Death in Harlem, famed scholar Karla FC Holloway weaves a mystery in the bon vivant world of the Harlem Renaissance....
Family is complicated… Meet the Mafus, a close-knit, traditional family with three daughters. As leaders of their church, The Kingdom of God,...
In her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small...
Hardcover
At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was fifty-seven years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her...
After a personal tragedy upends his world, American-born artist Chris travels to his mother's homeland in the Caribbean hoping to find some...
"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land...
Imprisoned for ten years for his rage against society, activist and retired academic Prof resolves to live a life of darkness after...
Some people have dresses for every occasion but Afiya needs only one. Her dress records the memories of her childhood, from roses...
A Tall History of Sugar tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a man who was "born without skin," so that no one...
Césaire’s rich and insightful adaptation of The Tempest draws on contemporary Caribbean society, the African-American experience and African mythology to raise questions...
In this new commentary for the Belief series, award-winning author and theologian Willie James Jennings explores the relevance of the book of...
Book two of the Xenogenesis trilogy. After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether...
Xenogenesis
Lilith’s Brood
This radical collection of short stories is a double award-winning book. The stories deal with challenging themes representing some of the most...
This anthology includes eight traditional tales from all over Africa. Sumptuous hand-sewn collage artwork decorated with African beads adorns these unforgettable tales...
After the Rain is a graphic novel adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s short story “On the Road.” The drama takes place in a...
A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop...
Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she’s albino. She’s...
From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had mystical energy flowing in her blood, she sought to understand and control her powers....
Poor Akissi! The neighborhood cats are trying to steal her fish, her little monkey Boubou almost ends up in a frying pan,...
The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation,” All About Love is a revelation about what...
In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community...
"An expansive spectrum of literary purpose and aesthetics that shine fiercely" --from the introduction by Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet Laureate...
Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents,...
In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular Himalayan land, where she and...
Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent black female writers. Studying these writers' key engagements with nationalism, race and gender during...
Chronicling the events that took place in Grenada from 1951—when workers revolted against the white owners of the sugar and cocoa estates—to...
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age...
Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River ... inspired, lyrical short stories. Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another...
Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of...
The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet’s mother, who...
Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival's newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical...
Bita is adopted and sent to England from Jamaica by white missionary benefactors and returns to her home village of Banana Bottom...
Five Firm Friends – Edith, Cordelia, Amanda, Doris and Beauty – are five career women who confront life head-on. But when Beauty...
Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide is a satirical commentary on the different Nigerians you are likely to meet at home and abroad, on...
In Belly of the Beast, Da’Shaun Harrison–a fat, Black, disabled, and nonbinary trans writer–offers an incisive, fresh, and precise exploration of anti-fatness...
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate...
The memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer...
Religious fervour culminates in an exorcism for one unfortunate maid. A harrowing encounter on a train haunts Añuli. A mother abandons her...
In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty’s house doesn’t quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can’t shake the...
An epic spread across three nations, Beyond Babylon casts a probing, endlessly perceptive eye on the lasting effects of traumas both national...
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University,...
The thrilling sequel to the Hugo and Nebula-winning Binti by Nnedi Okorafor, and a finalist for the 2018 Hugo and Nommo Awards...
The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI. Binti has returned...
Digging through memories long buried, Cepeda journeyed not only into her ancestry but also into her own history. Born in Harlem to...
In Birthing Black Mothers Black feminist theorist Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the “Black mother” has become a powerful...
Sabia C. Wade, renowned radical doula and educator, speaks to the intersections of systemic issues--such as access to health care, house transportation,...
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