Collective Amnesia
By: Koleka Putuma
4.46
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This highly-anticipated debut collection from one of the country's most acclaimed young voices mark…
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1. The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
3.84
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more
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"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
2. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
By: Warsan Shire
4.25
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more
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- poetry
- africa
- feminism
- nonfiction
"Her body is one long sigh."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
3. Questions for Ada
By: Ijeoma Umebinyuo
4.34
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
The artistry of QUESTIONS FOR ADA defies words, embodying the pain, the passion, and the power of l… read more
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- poetry
- africa
- feminism
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- african literature
"I am too full of life to be half-loved."-Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada
"I have pasts inside me I did not bury properly."-Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada
"this is how his love like music makes my soul dance."-Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada
"Naked before my eyes, I thank whatever Gods created your ancestors."-Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada
4. Killing Kanoko
By: Jeffrey Angles , Hiromi Itō , None
4.12
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Poetry. East Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. "I want to get rid of K… read more
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- poetry
5. Bone
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
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- nonfiction
- queer
6. A Grain of Wheat
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Gr… read more
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- africa
- african literature
7. So Long a Letter
By: Mariama Bâ , Modupé Bodé-Thomas
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her strugg… read more
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- feminism
- africa
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8. Breach
By: Annie Holmes , Olumide Popoola
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the refugee camp known as The Jungle an illusion is being disrupted: that of a neatly ordered wo… read more
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9. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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10. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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11. The Yearning
By: Mohale Mashigo
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Yearning (noun): A feeling of intense longing for something. How long does it take for scars to hea… read more
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12. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
13. Girls That Never Die: Poems
By: Safia Elhillo
4.30
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more
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- poetry
- africa
- feminism
- nonfiction
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems
14. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
15. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
By: Ntozake Shange
4.28
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more
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- feminism
"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
16. That Old Country Music
By: Kevin Barry
3.90
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), m… read more
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17. Why The Moon Travels
By: Oein DeBharduin
4.34
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Why the moon travels is a haunting collection of twenty tales rooted in the oral tradition of the I… read more
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18. Collective Amnesia
By: Koleka Putuma
4.46
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This highly-anticipated debut collection from one of the country's most acclaimed young voices mark… read more
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- poetry
- africa
- south africa
- female authors
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- african literature
- danish
- queer
19. An Unusual Grief
By: Yewande Omotoso
3.76
Format: 240 pages, None
How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead? This is the question which takes a mother… read more
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20. Land Matters: South Africa's Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead
By: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
4.02
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In Land Matters, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles the past, present, and future of the land question in … read more
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21. The Sex Lives of African Women
By: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
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