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Africa

Historic as well as contemporary work from all over the world, with a particular interest in their cultural narratives. Large format, wonderfully illustrated and scholarly.

Threads of Time: A Cultural Journey: Textiles from Around the World ...

Daniel Brewster

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To accompany the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum on the Malian photographer.

Seydou Keita: A Tactile Lens

Seydou Keita

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A remarkable memoir by a man who came to England in the 1980s as a refugee, when refugees were allowed to work. He has led an exceptionally industrious and successful life since then, but in... read more

No Safer Kinder Hatred: How Racial Hatred and Ethnic Violence Shaped Z ...

Frank Thabani Sayi

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A dazzling work of scholarship that brings together firsthand accounts from myriad sources to show that the primary driver for the abolition of slavery was the enslaved themselves. By the au... read more

Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atl ...

Sudhir Hazareesingh

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Rare examples of Zambian street photography from the 60s to the 90s - a time when cameras and other photographic equipment were extremely hard to come by for Black Zambians; the effects of c... read more

Lusaka Street

Alick Phiri

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Superb photographs, very large format - hence the price tag.

Morocco

Fokion Zissiadis

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This brilliant exploration of a C17th West African slave port, through the Inquisition's investigation of its most powerful (female) slave trader, reshapes our understanding of the slave tra... read more

The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century We ...

Toby Green

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A beautifully-produced 'artist's book', with many illustrations, tipped-in drawings and transparent interleaving. Developed from the artist's eponymous film first shown at the 2024 Vencie Bi... read more

William Kentridge: Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

William Kentridge

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Vibrant, vital works by a hundred leading artists of African diasporic, Latin American and Native American identity explore the complex connectivity of race, the climate crisis and coloniali... read more

Black Earth Rising

Ekow Eshun

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Set in Zanzibar, Gurnah's latest novel follows several characters across the final decades of the C20th and into the 21st. Their families overlap as their lives play out against the backdrop... read more

Theft

Abdulrazak Gurnah

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It is almost impossible to remember that the characters aren't four real women. Powerful, evocative and continually surprising in all its insights, Dream Count is a vivid exploration of how ... read more

Dream Count

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Cruises in North Africa, in two volumes: 'In the Sahara: by camel, by car, by cruise-ship' and 'Roaring Twenties Tourism Seen by Sandoz', an artist, 41 and well-established by the time he se... read more

Croisières en Afrique du Nord

Dominique Boudet

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A harrowing reconstruction of the author's escape, aged 15, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Nuns and aid workers helped her to escape hidden in a truck; her safe delivery... read more

The Convoy

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

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A victorious Nubian Queen; the wealthiest man who ever lived; the evolution of early oral literature into modern rap... and the author's exploration of his own Ghanaian heritage.

Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Ide ...

Luke Pepera

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A chance encounter with a map sets Roberts off on another unusual and intrepid exploration: this time a story of colonial Africa, when King Leopold tried to introduce Indian elephants to the... read more

A Training School for Elephants

Sophy Roberts

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Follows the complex interactions of a group of migrants in a small town in Sicily who await their fates: polyphonic, nuanced and moving. Its young Senegalese author won the Prix Goncourt two... read more

The Silence of the Choir

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

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An illustrated study of the contributions by Black designers to international fashion.

Africa’s Fashion Diaspora

Elizabeth Way

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A fresh perspective that includes a chapter on the Indian Ocean and trade from the East.

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independenc ...

Zeinab Badawi

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Set during Nigeria's Biafran War. The author has twice been short-listed for the Booker prize.

The Road to the Country

Chigozie Obioma

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Majorelle (1886-1962) was a French painter who travelled widely in Italy and Egypt before settling in Morocco in 1917; he became well-known as an Orientalist painter (with shades of Edward H... read more

Jacques Majorelle

Amelie Marcilhac

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Based on the Atholl collection of South African art, this superbly produced volume explores themes of transformation and metamorphosis, resistance and affinity, highlighting the fragility of... read more

Dust in the Glasshouse

Deon Viljoen

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The White Nile Diaries

John Hopkins

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The rise and fall of the Bacris and Busnachs, two Jewish families whose prominence in trade and banking led them to play a small but crucial diplomatic and logistical role in the Napoleonic ... read more

The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean ...

Julie Kalman

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An expansion on his widely acclaimed and influential, Empireland.

Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe ...

Sathnam Sanghera

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A novel about a young girl growing up in 1980s Ethiopia, embattled with her mother and with God.

The History of a Difficult Child

Mihret Sibhat

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Photographs of rural Morocco as well as towns, mostly taken in the 1970s and 1980s: stark, haunting, beautiful, even sombre - but not the hats.

Harry Gruyaert: Morocco

Harry Gruyaert

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Brought up in late-Victorian Presbyterian Aberdeenshire, McBey became a war artist in WW1. A decade later he married the American Marguerite Loeb and went to live in Tangier, in a house on O... read more

Shadows and Light: The Extraordinary Life of James McBey ...

Alasdair Soussi

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The British empire observed through the lens of a single day: the 29th September 1923, when the Mandate for Palestine became law and the British empire reached its maximum extent, just as i... read more

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink

Matthew Parker

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Born in Kenya, the author was two when the Mau Mau uprising began. A powerful memoir of this very difficult period and the end of empire in Kenya.The author worked for many years for the BBC... read more

Trapped in History: Kenya, Mau Mau and Me

Nicholas Rankin

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An account of Nasser's rise, the expulsion of Britain and France, and his influential legacy.

We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the ...

Alex Rowell

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From the author of the breathtaking At Night All Blood is Black (winner of the International Booker Prize in 2021), this novel is another marvel. Set in C18th France and Africa, its protagon... read more

Beyond The Door of No Return

David Diop

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An unusual look at Byzantium and its intersection with Africa. Accompanies an exhibition at MoMA.

Africa and Byzantium

Andrea Myers Achi

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A biography of the city founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, once the largest city in the world and for a thousand years the capital of Egypt. Looks at the modern period too.

Alexandria: The City that Changed the World

Islam Issa

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The romantic and often shirtless photographer, diarist, and writer.

Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard ...

Christopher Wallace

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Enayat al-Zayyat was a young Egyptian woman whose only novel was published posthumously in 1967. Here, one of Egypt's foremost poets creates a portrait not only of Enayat but of literary an... read more

Traces of Enayat

Iman Mersal

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9000BC years ago there were pastoral economies; by 3000BC the desert reasserted itself. A fascinating study of human adaptability in the face of early climate change and geophysical influenc... read more

Facing the Sea of Sand: The Sahara and the Peoples of Northern Africa ...

Barry Cunliffe

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