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32 produkter
That Which Is Not Drawn
In Conversation
Av William Kentridge, Rosalind C. Morris
Häftad, 2017
205 kr
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For more than three decades, artist William Kentridge has explored in his work the nature of subjectivity, the possibilities of revolution, the Enlightenment's legacy in Africa, and the nature of time itself. At the same time, his creative work has stretched the boundaries of the very media he …
What Is Africa to Me?
Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography
Av Maryse Condé
Inbunden, 2017
318 kr
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Maryse Conde is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and has long been recognized as a giant of black feminist literature. While Conde has previously …
Accounts and Drawings from Underground
The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book, 1906
Av William Kentridge, Rosalind C. Morris
Inbunden, 2015
885 kr
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Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a world-wide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. The films introduced a significant character in contemporary fiction: Soho Eckstein, a Highveld mining magnate …
Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper
Inbunden, 2015
216 kr
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Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. In his first collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed writer …
Secure the Base
Making Africa Visible in the Globe
Inbunden, 2016
220 kr
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For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrates the injustice of colonial violence and the …
Rachel's Blue
Av Zakes Mda
Inbunden, 2016
276 kr
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Novelist Zakes Mda has made a name for himself as a key chronicler of the new, post-apartheid South Africa, casting a satirical eye on its claims of political unity, its rising black middle class, and other aspects of its complicated, multiracial society.In this novel, however, he turns his lens …
Passage of Tears
Häftad, 2018
198 kr
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Passage of Tears cleverly mixes many genres and forms of writing--spy novel, political thriller, diary (replete with childhood memories), travel notebook, legends, parables, incantations, and prayers. Djibril's reminiscences provide a sense of Djibouti's past and its people, while a satire of …
Naming the Dawn
Inbunden, 2018
177 kr
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The poems in this new volume by Abdourahman A. Waberi are introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a deep spiritual bond—with words, with the history of Islam and its great poets, with the landscapes those poets walked, among which Waberi grew up. The sage yearns here for the simplicity of each …
Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories
Häftad, 2018
165 kr
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“Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil’s own job.”In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary genealogy, South African novelist Ivan Vladislavic explores the problems and potentials of the fictions …
Upright Revolution
Or Why Humans Walk Upright
Inbunden, 2019
183 kr
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Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o offers in The Upright Revolution. Blending myth and folklore with an acute insight into the human psyche and politics, …
Modern Sovereign
The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon)
Av Joseph Tonda
Inbunden, 2021
391 kr
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The “Modern Sovereign,” a notion indebted both to Hobbes’s Leviathan and Marx’s conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest colonial days to the post-colonial era. It is an internalized power, responsible for the multiform violence exerted on …
Of Morsels and Marvels
Av Maryse Condé
Inbunden, 2020
249 kr
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For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Condé, however, cooking implies creativity and personal invention, on par with the complexity of writing a story. A cook, she explains, uses spices and flavors the same way an author chooses the music and …
Divine Song
Inbunden, 2020
203 kr
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“Everything starts with a song and everything ends with another song,” says the narrator of The Divine Song. Paris is an old Sufi cat who keeps watch over his brilliant yet pathetic master, Sammy Kamau-Williams, the Enchanter. In Sammy, we recognize the African American singer-composer, poet, and …
Phantom Africa
Häftad, 2019
391 kr
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One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal--by turns melodramatic, self-deprecating, ecstatic, and morose--as well as an …
Land Like You
Av Tobie Nathan
Inbunden, 2020
240 kr
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A riveting and revealing tale of an Egypt caught between tradition and modernity, multiculturalism and nationalism, oppression and freedom.Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful …
Culture and Liberation
Exile Writings, 1966–1985
Av Alex La Guma, Christopher J. Lee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
450 kr
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One of South Africa’s best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Persecuted and imprisoned by the South African regime in the 1950s and 60s, La Guma went into exile in the …
Accounts and Drawings from Underground
The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book
Av William Kentridge, Rosalind C Morris
Inbunden, 2021
491 kr
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In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation in South Africa and transforming them into …
Shadow of Things to Come
Av Kossi Efoui
Häftad, 2021
139 kr
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Now in paperback, The Shadow of Things to Come and its catastrophic and carnivalesque dreamscape speak out against political rhetoric and the destruction of meaning by government.In an unnamed African nation, the people are subject to a state of perpetual warfare and to an Orwellian abuse of …
Solio
Häftad, 2024
204 kr
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Poetry that serves as an evocative portrayal of diverse landscapes and cultures. In these otherworldly poetry sequences, Samira Negrouche reminds us that “all life is movement,” where “time passes through me / beings pass through me / they are me / I am them.” The “I” is representative of one …
Return
Av Raharimanana
Inbunden, 2026
282 kr
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A powerful testament to writing as an act of beauty and rebellion that speaks truth and condemns violent legacies and a feverish ode that weaves together personal and national history to finally find healing. This evocative novel from a great figure of Malagasy literature tells the story of Hira, a …
Africa in the World’s Time
Inbunden, 2026
186 kr
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Mamadou Diouf unearths the intellectual and cultural traditions that have long defined Africa, proving that history was never just written about Africa, but also by it.For too long, Africa has been framed as an afterthought in world history—a continent written into the margins of time. In Africa in …
As Long As Trees Take Root in the Earth
and Other Poems
Häftad, 2025
233 kr
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A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou.These compelling poems by novelist and essayist Alain Mabanckou conjure nostalgia for an African childhood where the fauna, flora, sounds, and smells evoke snapshots of a life forever gone. Mabanckou’s poetry is frank …
Gestuary
Av Sylvie Kandé
Häftad, 2026
217 kr
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A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into lyrical gestures.Sylvie Kandé’s Gestuary offers a collection of gestures—of death and life, of tenderness and brutality—that fractures the flow of time. Senegalese riflemen from World …
Continent of Everything and Practically Nothing
Av Sami Tchak
Häftad, 2026
269 kr
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A Togolese novel that delivers a rich, intimate portrait of a scholar whose life is inextricably bound to Africa.For the French ethnologist Maurice Boyer, Africa isn't just a place; it’s a mirage, an enigma, a mirror reflecting his desires and doubts. The fieldwork he undertook in Tèdi, Togo, where …
Language of Languages
Häftad, 2026
150 kr
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With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, plays, and memoirs, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been at the forefront of world literature for decades. He …
What Is Africa to Me?
Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography
Av Maryse Condé
Häftad, 2026
248 kr
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In this biography, literary giant Maryse Condé recounts her early adult years in Guinea, Ghana, and Sénégal, set against the backdrop of their struggles for independence. Maryse Condé is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, …
Secure the Base
Making Africa Visible in the Globe
Häftad, 2026
211 kr
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The first comprehensive collection of Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's nonfiction, spanning lectures and texts on colonialism, labor and political struggles, and the legacies of slavery. For more than sixty years, Ngũgĩwa Thiong’o has been fearlessly writing about the questions, challenges, …
Africa in the World’s Time
Rewriting the Past Beyond Colonial Narratives
Häftad, 2027
177 kr
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Mamadou Diouf unearths the intellectual and cultural traditions that have long defined Africa, proving that history was never just written about Africa, but also by it.For too long, Africa has been framed as an afterthought in world history—a continent written into the margins of time. In Africa in …
Shadow of Things to Come
Av Kossi Efoui
Inbunden, 2013
216 kr
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In an unnamed African nation, the people are subject to a state of perpetual warfare and an Orwellian abuse of language that strips away meaning and renders life senseless. And in a bare room lit only by moonlight, a young man hides, waiting for the mysterious crocodile-men to come and help him …
Conditional Tense
Memory and Vocabulary after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Av Antjie Krog
Inbunden, 2013
271 kr
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When apartheid ended in 1994, a radiant national optimism suggested a bright future for the new, unified South Africa. But today, even in the midst of a vibrant economy, the cumulative effect of the country's corrosive past-three hundred years of colonialism, the Anglo-Boer War, the displacement, …
