The Africa List – serie
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13 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 …
The 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
274 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 …
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 …
The 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 …
The 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
387 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
247 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 …
The 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 …
Shadow of Things to Come
Av Kossi Efoui
Häftad, 2021
144 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 …
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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, …
