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  • The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945

    by Simon Gikandi, Evan Mwangi ...
    Series series The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
    The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 challenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Instead, these traditions stretch far into such neighboring countries as Somalia and Ethiopia.Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi assemble a truly inclusive list of ... Read more

    Was $89.99 USD Now $44.99 USD

  • The Postcolonial Animal

    African Literature and Posthuman Ethics

    by Evan Mwangi ...
    Series series African Perspectives
    Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of animal studies. The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics demonstrates the importance of African writing to animal studies by analyzing how postcolonial African writing—including folktales, religion, philosophy, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Around The Globe - Must See Places in Africa

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  • Assia Djebar's L'Amour La Fantasia and the historiographic approach

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  • In My Father's House

    Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
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  • Mandela

    A Critical Life

    by Tom Lodge ...
    Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. But what are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? And to what extent did Mandela self-consciously create the status of political hero that he now enjoys? This new and highly revealing biography examines these questions in detail for the first time. Drawing on a range of ... Read more

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  • Muslims beyond the Arab World

    The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya

    by Fallou Ngom ...
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    Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal. The book demonstrates how the development of the 'Ajami literary tradition is entwined with the flourishing of the Muridiyya into one of sub-Saharan Africa's most powerful and dynamic Sufi organizations. It ... Read more

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  • Apartheid and Beyond

    South African Writers and the Politics of Place

    by Rita Barnard ...
    Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as ... Read more

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  • The White Nile Diaries

    by John Hopkins ...
    It all began at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, New York, in 1961 - Two Princeton graduates - John Hopkins and Joe McPhillips - have returned from Peru. Loathe to return to a life of work, marriage and mortgages, they are tempted by a mysterious letter from Kenya. Hatching a plan to ride a motorbike across North Africa, they buy a sleek, white R50 BMW and paint her name - 'The White Nile' ... Read more

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    Edited by David Attwell, Derek Attridge ...
    South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty ... Read more

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