Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (African Arguments)
By: Nanjala Nyabola
4.24
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist mov…
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1. Unbowed
By: Wangari Maathai
4.06
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, t… read more
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"You don't need a diploma to plant a tree."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"What people see as fearlessness is really persistence."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded..."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finchè potete."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
2. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
3. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Guidance on the Path to Mindfulness from a Spiritual Leader
By: Chi-Young Kim , Haemin Sunim , Youngcheol Lee
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in ou… read more
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- nonfiction
4. 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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- kenya
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5. Flow (Grip, #0.5)
By: Kennedy Ryan
4.01
Format: 217 pages,
In 8 years, Marlon James will be one of the brightest rising stars in the music industry. Bristol G… read more
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6. Behold the Dreamers
By: Imbolo Mbue
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a b… read more
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7. The Promised Land
By: Grace Ogot
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
A young farmer and his wife who have migrated to Tanzania from Kenya become embroiled in issues of … read more
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8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
9. 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
10. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
11. Honey & Spice
By: Bolu Babalola
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Introducing internationally bestselling author Bolu Babalola's dazzling debut novel, full of passio… read more
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"There's a whole universe in her and I would be so lucky to live in it, explore it. Over and over."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"My heart had never been compelled into competitive sports by boys and yet here it was, acting like an Olympian, beating like its name was Serena."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"I got scared and I backed her into a corner. She was going through something, and I didn’t give her space to feel that. I was thinking about myself."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"Romance was a waste of time, a form of manipulation utilised by boys who didn't wash their bed sheets regularly. It existed sure, but I wasn't surrounded by anyone I believed engaged in it properly, …"-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
12. Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
By: Joya Goffney
4.08
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by debut author Joya Goffney is the story of an overly enthusiastic list… read more
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"There are enough closed doors and glass ceilings in the world. My comfort zone shouldn’t be one of them."-Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
"Cowards will do anything to feel safe, to feel in control. I used to be a coward, too, but the first brave thing I ever did was to stop being your friend."-Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
"Because I realized today that that’s what I did to you. I forced you to get naked before you were ready. And I’m disgusted at myself for doing that to you."-Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
"I think to myself, If I can still move, what I’m gon’ be still for? Maybe because I’m too scared to move. Because if I move, people might see me. Because staying still is easier."-Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
13. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola … read more
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"if it's real, the distance won't change it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
14. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- politics
- africa
- history
- nonfiction
15. A Woman Is No Man
By: Etaf Rum
4.26
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
This debut novel by a Palestinian-American voice takes us inside the lives of a conservative Arab f… read more
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"It’s hard to belong anywhere, truly belong, if we don’t belong to ourselves first."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"Her powerlessness even comforted her somehow. Knowing that she couldn't change things - that she didn't have a choice - made living it more bearable."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"Sadness was like a cancer, she thought, a presence that staked it's claim so quietly you might not even notice it until it was too late. She hoped her other daughters didn't see."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"It's the loneliest people who love books the most...it was the opposite of loneliness, too, like there were too many people around me, forced connections, that I needed a little isolation to think on…"-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
16. Scattered All Over the Earth
By: Yōko Tawada
3.27
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now re… read more
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"People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are."-Yōko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth
17. Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development
By: Alexandra Cosima Budabin
3.25
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
How celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space Can a celebrity be a “disru… read more
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18. The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities… read more
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19. Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (African Arguments)
By: Nanjala Nyabola
4.24
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist mov… read more
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- africa
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- cultural studies
- kenya
- sociology
- technology
20. Why We Lie About Aid: Development and the Messy Politics of Change
By: Pablo Yanguas
3.79
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is … read more
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21. The End of Development: A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity
By: Andrew Brooks
4.00
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor? Human history unfolded differently ac… read more
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