Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa (African Expressive Cultures)
By: Charles Didier Gondola
4.50
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known …
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1. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
2. On the Postcolony
By: Achille Mbembe , None
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On … read more
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3. Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa
By: Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African … read more
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4. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
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Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
5. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
By: None
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Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more
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6. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
7. Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
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4.12
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Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard hi… read more
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8. Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa (African Expressive Cultures)
By: Charles Didier Gondola
4.50
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known … read more
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