Modern African Writing – serie
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29 produkter
Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga
Av Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Larry Siems
Häftad, 2021
249 kr
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An epic story of a Bedouin family's survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. The days of Ahmed and the other families in their nomadic freeg are ruled by …
From Sleep Unbound
Häftad, 1983
233 kr
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From Sleep Unbound portrays the life of Samya, an Egyptian woman who is taken at age 15 from her Catholic boarding school and forced into a loveless and humiliating marriage. Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally …
From Sleep Unbound
E-bok, 1983
359 kr
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From Sleep Unbound portrays the life of Samya, an Egyptian woman who is taken at age 15 from her Catholic boarding school and forced into a loveless and humiliating marriage. Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally …
Dog Eat Dog
A Novel
Av Niq Mhlongo
Häftad, 2012
388 kr
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Dog Eat Dog is a remarkable record of being young in a nation undergoing tremendous turmoil, and provides a glimpse into South Africa's pivotal kwaito (South African hip-hop) generation and life in Soweto. Set in 1994, just as South Africa is making its postapartheid transition, Dog Eat Dog …
Paper Sons and Daughters
Growing Up Chinese in South Africa
Av Ufrieda Ho
Häftad, 2012
262 kr
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Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it, relegated to certain neighborhoods and certain …
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A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War
Häftad, 2012
217 kr
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Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African …
Thirteen Cents
A Novel
Häftad, 2013
249 kr
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Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope, and moments of happiness. Living in this shadow is …
491 Days
Prisoner Number 1323/69
Häftad, 2014
237 kr
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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 of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged nine and ten.Rounded …
491 Days
Prisoner Number 1323/69
Inbunden, 2014
602 kr
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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 of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged nine and ten.Rounded …
Mrs. Shaw
A Novel
Inbunden, 2015
426 kr
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In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation's exiles are preparing to return. One of these exiles, a young man named Kalumba, is a graduate student in the United States, where he encounters Mrs. Shaw, a professor emerita and former …
Extinction of Menai
A Novel
Häftad, 2018
333 kr
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In the early 1980s, a pharmaceutical company administers an unethical drug trial to residents of the Niger Delta village of Kreektown. When children die as a result of the trial, the dominoes of language extinction and cultural collapse begin to topple. Decades later the end looms for the Menai …
Wolf at Number 4
A Novel
Inbunden, 2018
479 kr
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Desire Mensah, a disgraced schoolteacher in her thirties, sees moving to sleepy little Cape Coast, Ghana, as her chance to get away from a shameful secret not buried deeply enough. And maybe, just maybe, she will find the love she craves and the husband her mother craves for her.But in Cape Coast, …
Wolf at Number 4
A Novel
Häftad, 2018
330 kr
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Desire Mensah, a disgraced schoolteacher in her thirties, sees moving to sleepy little Cape Coast, Ghana, as her chance to get away from a shameful secret not buried deeply enough. And maybe, just maybe, she will find the love she craves and the husband her mother craves for her.But in Cape Coast, …
Staging the Amistad
Three Sierra Leonean Plays
Av Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu Maddy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
716 kr
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Staging the Amistad collects in print for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone's most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the twentieth century: Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu "Pat" Maddy, and Raymond E. D. de'Souza George. Until the late 1980s, …
Staging the Amistad
Three Sierra Leonean Plays
Av Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu Maddy m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
362 kr
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Staging the Amistad collects in print for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone's most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the twentieth century: Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu "Pat" Maddy, and Raymond E. D. de'Souza George. Until the late 1980s, …
Cape Cod Bicycle War
And Other Stories
Av Billy Kahora
Häftad, 2020
284 kr
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Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood. In the title story, immigrant workers with …
Fine Boys
A Novel
Häftad, 2021
281 kr
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A coming-of-age tale told from the perspective of Nigeria's Generation X, caught amid the throes of a nascent pro-democracy movement, demoralizing corruption, and campus violence. Ewaen is a Nigerian teenager, bored at home in Warri and eager to flee from his parents' unhappy marriage and incessant …
For You, I'd Steal a Goat
Short Stories
Av Niq Mhlongo
Häftad, 2025
281 kr
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For You, I’d Steal a Goat is a vibrant collection of short stories filled with memorable characters, intriguing plots, and twist endings. It explores a wide range of themes, such as corruption, racial bias, family troubles, and lovers’ spats, to name a few. In his stories about queer relationships, …
For You, I'd Steal a Goat
Short Stories
Av Niq Mhlongo
E-bok, 2025
458 kr
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For You, I’d Steal a Goat is a vibrant collection of short stories filled with memorable characters, intriguing plots, and twist endings. It explores a wide range of themes, such as corruption, racial bias, family troubles, and lovers’ spats, to name a few. In his stories about queer relationships, …
Cape Cod Bicycle War
And Other Stories
Av Billy Kahora
E-bok, 2020
398 kr
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Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood. In the title story, immigrant workers with …
Paper Sons and Daughters
Growing Up Chinese in South Africa
Av Ufrieda Ho
E-bok, 2012
405 kr
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Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it, relegated to certain neighborhoods and certain …
Conscript
A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War
E-bok, 2012
339 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African …
491 Days
Prisoner Number 1323/69
E-bok, 2014
477 kr
Lägg i varukorg
On a freezing winter's night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged nine and ten.Rounded …
Mrs. Shaw
A Novel
E-bok, 2015
657 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation's exiles are preparing to return. One of these exiles, a young man named Kalumba, is a graduate student in the United States, where he encounters Mrs. Shaw, a professor emerita and former …
Extinction of Menai
A Novel
E-bok, 2018
518 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the early 1980s, a pharmaceutical company administers an unethical drug trial to residents of the Niger Delta village of Kreektown. When children die as a result of the trial, the dominoes of language extinction and cultural collapse begin to topple. Decades later the end looms for the Menai …
Wolf at Number 4
A Novel
E-bok, 2018
518 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Desire Mensah, a disgraced schoolteacher in her thirties, sees moving to sleepy little Cape Coast, Ghana, as her chance to get away from a shameful secret not buried deeply enough. And maybe, just maybe, she will find the love she craves and the husband her mother craves for her.But in Cape Coast, …
Staging the Amistad
Three Sierra Leonean Plays
Av Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu Maddy m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
578 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Staging the Amistad collects in print for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone's most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the twentieth century: Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu "Pat" Maddy, and Raymond E. D. de'Souza George. Until the late 1980s, …
Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga
Av Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Larry Siems
E-bok, 2021
448 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An epic story of a Bedouin family's survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. The days of Ahmed and the other families in their nomadic freeg are ruled by …
Fine Boys
A Novel
E-bok, 2021
457 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A coming-of-age tale told from the perspective of Nigeria's Generation X, caught amid the throes of a nascent pro-democracy movement, demoralizing corruption, and campus violence. Ewaen is a Nigerian teenager, bored at home in Warri and eager to flee from his parents' unhappy marriage and incessant …
