Down Second Avenue By Ezekiel Mphahlele

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Title	:	Down Second Avenue
Author	:	Ezekiel Mphahlele
ISBN	:	084464451X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	222

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Es kia Mphahlele s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa available for the first time in Penguin Classics Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing Down Second Avenue is a landmark book that describes Mphahlele s experience growing up in segregated South Afri Es kia Mphahlele s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa available for the first time in Penguin Classics Nom...

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The Last Summer of Reason By Tahar Djaout

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Title	:	The Last Summer of Reason
Author	:	Tahar Djaout
ISBN	:	1886913501
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	145

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This elegantly haunting work of fiction features bookstore owner Boualem Yekker, who lives in a country overtaken by a radically conservative party known as the Vigilant Brothers, a group that seeks to control every aspect of life according to the precepts of their rigid moral theology The belief that no work of beauty created by humans should rival the wonders of their g This elegantly haunting work of fiction features bookstore owner Boualem Yekker, who lives in a country overtaken by a radica...

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A Bend in the River By V.S. Naipaul

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Title	:	A Bend in the River
Author	:	V.S. Naipaul
ISBN	:	033052299X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	326

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Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast He believes The world is what it is men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. So he has taken the initiative left the coast acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continents s re Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the...

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The Reactive By Masande Ntshanga

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Title	:	The Reactive
Author	:	Masande Ntshanga
ISBN	:	1937512436
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	212

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The Reactive is a searing, gorgeously written account of life, love, illness, and death in South Africa With exquisite prose, formal innovation, and a masterful command of storytelling, Ntshanga illustrates how some young people navigated the dusk that followed the dawn of freedom in South Africa and humanizes the casualties of the Mbeki government s fatal policies on The Reactive is a searing, gorgeously written account of life, love, illness, and death in South Africa With exqui...

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Good Morning, Mr. Mandela By Zelda la Grange

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Title	:	Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
Author	:	Zelda la Grange
ISBN	:	0525428283
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	384

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In Good Morning, Mr Mandela, Zelda la Grange recounts her remarkable life at the right hand of the man we both knew and loved It s a tribute to both of them to Madiba s eye for talent and his capacity for trust and to Zelda s courage to take on a great challenge and her capacity for growth This story proves the power of making politics personal and is an important remin In Good Morning, Mr Mandela, Zelda la Grange recounts her remarkable life at the right hand of the man we both knew and lov...

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Heart of Darfur By Lisa French Blaker

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Title	:	Heart of Darfur
Author	:	Lisa French Blaker
ISBN	:	0340952296
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	348

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This is the heart breakingly honest and tender account of a nurse s struggle to help in the middle of the humanitarian disaster that is Darfur....

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In the Name of God By Yasmina Khadra

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Title	:	In the Name of God
Author	:	Yasmina Khadra
ISBN	:	1902881117
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	224

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The descent of a peaceful village into the horrors of civil war Khadra brings to life a conflict largely unknown to those in the English speaking world Imagine becoming accustomed to terror on a daily basis Imagine finding it normal to betray your neighbour Imagine your worst fears being replaced by complacency, your natural compassion by cold indifference IN THE NAME The descent of a peaceful village into the horrors of civil war Khadra brings to life a conflict largely unknown to those in the ...

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The Memory of Love By Aminatta Forna

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Title	:	The Memory of Love
Author	:	Aminatta Forna
ISBN	:	1408808137
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	445

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In contemporary Sierra Leone, a devastating civil war has left an entire populace with secrets to keep In the capital hospital, a gifted young surgeon is plagued by demons that are beginning to threaten his livelihood Elsewhere in the hospital lies a dying man who was young during the country s turbulent postcolonial years and has stories to tell that are far from heroic In contemporary Sierra Leone, a devastating civil war has left an entire populace with secrets to keep In the capital hospital, a gifted...

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The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry By Assia Djebar

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Title	:	The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry
Author	:	Assia Djebar
ISBN	:	1583227873
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	224

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What happens when catastrophe becomes an everyday occurrence Each of the seven stories in Assia Djebar s The Tongue s Blood Does Not Run Dry reaches into the void where normal and impossible realities coexist All the stories were written in 1995 and 1996 a time when, by official accounts, some two hundred thousand Algerians were killed in Islamist assassinations and gove What happens when catastrophe becomes an everyday occurrence Each of the seven stories in Assia Djebar s The Tongue s Blood Do...

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The Africa House By Christina Lamb

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Title	:	The Africa House
Author	:	Christina Lamb
ISBN	:	0060735880
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	432

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In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port in the library All that was missing was a woman to share it with He adored the beautiful aviatrix Ethel Locke K In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore Browne was a proper English gentleman who bui...

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Dead Aid By Dambisa Moyo

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Title	:	Dead Aid
Author	:	Dambisa Moyo
ISBN	:	0374139563
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	188

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In the past fifty years, than 1 trillion in development related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans No In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse much worse.In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy In the past fifty years, than 1 trillion in development related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa Has th...

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Six Feet of the Country By Nadine Gordimer

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Title	:	Six Feet of the Country
Author	:	Nadine Gordimer
ISBN	:	0140065598
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	112

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Seven stories of South Africa deal with a missing body, a mysterious Rhodesian visitor, a pass law protest, a white geologist and his Black secretary, and a pair of childhood sweethearts....

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Dance With A Poor Man's Daughter By Pamela Jooste

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Title	:	Dance With A Poor Man's Daughter
Author	:	Pamela Jooste
ISBN	:	0552997579
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	352

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My name is Lily Daniels and I live in The Valley, in an old house at the top of a hill with a loquat tree in the garden We are all women in our house My grandmother, my Aunt Stella with her hopalong leg, and me The men in our family are not worth much They are the cross we have to bear Some of us, like my mother, don t live here any People say she went on the K My name is Lily Daniels and I live in The Valley, in an old house at the top of a hill with a loquat tree in the garden We are all w...

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Century of Locusts By Malika Mokeddem

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Title	:	Century of Locusts
Author	:	Malika Mokeddem
ISBN	:	0803283067
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	272

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What first appears as a tiny moving shadow, no bigger than a fly, on the dazzling horizon slowly reveals itself as the grim shape of violence and death in the destruction left behind the mother s broken body, the hidden child, the crying infant begins the story of wandering and loss, of exile and desolation that sounds all the sad echoes of disappearing Bedouin life Set What first appears as a tiny moving shadow, no bigger than a fly, on the dazzling horizon slowly reveals itself as the grim shape of viol...

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Behold the Dreamers By Imbolo Mbue

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Title	:	Behold the Dreamers
Author	:	Imbolo Mbue
ISBN	:	0812998480
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	380

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A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economyNamed one of BuzzFeed s Incredible New Books You Need to Read This Summer Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harle A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream the unf...

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In a Strange Room By Damon Galgut

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Title	:	In a Strange Room
Author	:	Damon Galgut
ISBN	:	1848873220
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	180

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A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa He travels lightly, simply To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian Yet, despite the man s best intentions, each journey ends in disa A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa He travels lightly, simply To those who travel with him and thos...

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Born on a Tuesday By Elnathan John

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Title	:	Born on a Tuesday
Author	:	Elnathan John
ISBN	:	0802124828
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	256

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From two time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tuesday is a stirring, starkly rendered first novel about a young boy struggling to find his place in a society that is fracturing along religious and political lines.In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree During the e From two time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tuesday is a st...

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