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“The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. “This being the ballet of the forgotten,” he writes as diasporic witness, “of refracted boundary points as venom.” The volume’s opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.

The Teeth of GiantsIn the most savage wilderness on the planet, the Chinese crime cartels hunted the elephants for their ivory. And nobody dared to cross them... Could one man help to put an end to this horrific trade? He was an old friend. His death was suspicious. At the least, ex-special forces soldier Jason Green had to return to Africa to pay his respects. He never intended to get caught up in the murky world of the illegal ivory trade. And falling for a hot-blooded television reporter wasn't part of the plan either.

One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization.

Best known for his glorious comic novels, Charles Portis was also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter. Now, for the first time, these writings—journalism, short fiction, memoir, travel stories, and even a play—have been brought together in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany. The collection encompasses the breadth of Portis’s fifty-year writing career, covering topics as varied as road tripping in Baja, Elvis’s visits to his aging mother, and his own boyhood in Arkansas.

A respected Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students. When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on by a powerful Nigerian politician to investigate the public torture and murder of three university students in Port...

A well-meaning American diplomat in South Africa tries to pacify his ferociously combative wife and anti-apartheid activist son by being reassigned to The Hague. But peace is hard to come by and, at an elegant New Year's Eve party, a harrowing betrayal is revealed. Judith Ivey recreates her acclaimed performance from the Lincoln Center production in this masterful drama from the author of The Substance of Fire.

This collection of poems explores the movements, excesses, and extremes of existing as a postmodern person, connecting these experiences to ancestry by reimagining memories, history, homesteads, migration, and the intersections of the past, present, and possible futures.

Shining a light on the remarkable, untold stories of reconciliation in Rwanda since the genocide in 1994, Kill the Devil is a love story between a survivor and a perpetrator of genocide in a lesson for our times and for all time.

Brought to you by Penguin. An expansive new collection from one of the UK’s most daring and celebrated poets In The New Carthaginians, time – and with it the world – is out of joint. A hijacked plane lands at Entebbe International Airport in 1976, triggering the crisis that will lead to...

À la fin du XIXe siècle, Bilal Seck achève un pèlerinage à La Mecque et s'apprête à rentrer à Saint-Louis du Sénégal. Une épidémie de choléra décime alors la région, mais Bilal en réchappe, sous le regard incrédule d'un médecin français qui cherche à percer les secrets de son immunité. Ce chemin, Bilal l'emprunte à son tour, vers son pays natal, en passant par Djenné, la cité rouge, où vint buter un temps le voyage d'Ounifer et de son peuple.

Brought to you by Penguin. *Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018* *Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018* Translating as 'initiation', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. The poems of Kayo Chingonyi's...

There is something about the boy. When he is angry, clouds darken. When he cries, rivers burst their banks. And when he touches a basketball, deities want courtside seats. Half Nigerian mortal, half Grecian god: Demi is the Half-God of Rainfall. His mother, Modupe, looks on with a mixture of pride and worry. From close encounters, she knows that gods are just like men: the same fragile egos, the same subsequent fury, the same sense of entitlement to the bodies of mortals. The gods will one day tire of sports fans, their fickle allegiances and their prayers to Demi.

The Journey Back is the blistering sequel to The Journey. Kalu is a doctor, who escaped an extremist revolution in Nigeria. He tried to get his family across the Sahara to look for passage to the safety of Europe but they were duped by ruthless people traffickers and his wife and two daughters were lost at sea. Fast forward twenty-years and his daughter, Kissie is in Ukraine when Russian tanks cross the border and his family are in terrible danger again.

أكثر ما أرهقني، في التصاق كولمبس وامرأته بي، هو أنني لم أعد أجد وقتًا لمحاولة تخمينك، وكلما جلست مطأطأ النوم، وواسع الأرق، لأحياك كما أريد، وأحيك دسائس الحب...

In the late 1970s, 15-year-old Camille Sheridan moved to Crescent Falls with her mom and stepfather. It was an unfamiliar place, but it wasn’t long before she met Christopher Peters and Luke Samuels, two boys in the neighborhood that would soon become her best friends. Chris was colorful, funny, and optimistic, a free spirit and full of life. Luke was kind and thoughtful; constantly talking about the future and a better life.

Abdulrazak Gurnah erzählt klug, mit Wärme und Humor aus dem heutigen Leben junger tansanischer Weltbürger – gelesen von Richard Barenberg Tansania, heute. Drei junge Menschen wachsen hier auf: Karim, der nach seinem Studium mit Ehrgeiz und großen Ideen in seine verschlafene Heimatstadt Daressalam zurückkehrt. Fauzia, die in Karim nicht nur ihren geliebten Partner, sondern auch die Chance sieht, einer allzu behüteten Kindheit zu entkommen.

An epic take on the white slave trade by Barbary pirates, centreing on the most famous buccaneer of the Salle Rovers—Jan Janszoon Van Haarlem. This novel-length narrative poem is set over six books, all interconnected but each telling its own separate and unique story.

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by A. Gregory Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspects of navigating their unique personal, professional, and artistic paths in Black skin.

"La notte ci vestiva. In un altro mondo, si sarebbe detto che era piena di attenzioni per noi. Nessunissima luce. Mai il benché minimo filo di luce. Ma i nostri occhi, pur avendo perso lo sguardo, si erano adattati. Vedevamo nelle tenebre, o credevamo di vedere." Il 10 luglio 1971 un commando militare irrompe nella residenza estiva del re a Skhirate, in Marocco. Ma il colpo di Stato fallisce. I soldati che hanno preso parte alla missione vengono rinchiusi in una prigione sotterranea, sepolti nelle tenebre per diciott'anni.

The Ugandan Tales is set in Uganda and is about the struggles of ordinary Africans against post-independence African rulers that preach freedom and emancipation but have turned into oppressors. This collection of poetry dives deep into topics of police brutality, social injustices, and oppression through the landscape of the tortured cities. Ordinary people seek to reassert their rights against an intransigent regime that is determined to keep them oppressed. The poems chronicle everyday struggles that are faced at the hands of fellow Africans masquerading as Pan-Africanists.