The Land is Ours
By: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, who operated in the late n…
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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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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"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. The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
By: Agatha Christie
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabet… read more
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"Drink up your wine,' ordered Poirot."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"I admit that the second murder in the book often cheers things up."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
3. Architects Of Poverty
By: Moeletsi Mbeki , Moletsi Mbeki
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Of an estimated 1 billion people in the world who are trapped in a cycle of grinding poverty and de… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- africa
4. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
5. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X
4.36
Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"We all like chicken"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
6. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
7. I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
By: Desmond Tutu , Steve Biko , None , None , Lewis R. Gordon
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Like all of St… read more
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8. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o , None
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Ngugi describes this book as "a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately inv… read more
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9. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
10. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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11. The House of Hunger
By: Dambudzo Marechera
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Guardian fiction prize, this novella and nine short stories describe life in a Zimbab… read more
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12. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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- politics
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
13. The Girl with the Louding Voice
By: Abi Daré
4.43
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
All you have are your words.Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: a… read more
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- africa
"I draw a breath, comforting myself with her scent of coconut oil and lily flower."-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice
"The wall in the room we shared will remind them that we were here. That we are human. Of value. Important."-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice
"... I feel a free that I didn't feel in long time. And when I smile, it climb from inside my stomach and spread itself on my teeth."-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice
"Now I know that speaking good English is not the measure of intelligent mind and sharp brain. English is only a language, like Yoruba and Igbo and Hausa. Nothing about it is so special, nothing about…"-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice
14. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By: Robin DiAngelo
4.17
Format: 7 pages, Audiobook
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
15. Rise: The Brand New Autobiography
By: Siya Kolisi
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
‘Siya's rise from humble beginnings to lifting that World Cup trophy is the stuff of fairytales.’ M… read more
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- south africa
- nonfiction
16. These Are Not Gentle People
By: Andrew Harding
4.13
Format: 304 pages, ebook
At dusk, on a warm evening in 2016, a group of forty men gathered in the corner of a dusty field on… read more
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17. Our Poisoned Land: Living in the Shadows of Zuma’s Keepers
By: Jacques Pauw
4.45
Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition
Our Poisoned Land is Jacques Pauwʼs sequel to the bestselling The Presidentʼs Keepers. A publishing… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- africa
- south africa
18. Fortunes: The Rise and Rise of Afrikaner Tycoons
By: Ebbe Dommisse
4.14
Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition
A handful of Afrikaners have risen to the very top of the business world in South Africa in the pas… read more
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19. The Land is Ours
By: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, who operated in the late n… read more
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- africa
- race
- history
- south africa
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
- african literature
20. The New Apartheid
By: Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
3.97
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
South Africa’s story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but while formal apartheid wa… read more
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21. Betting on a Darkie: Lifting the Corporate Game
By: Mteto Nyati
4.34
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
'If you want to take the system down, provide a better alternative at least. At heart I’m an engine… read more
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