Books, research and unfamiliar worlds.

2084: The End of the World

Boualem Sansal

A Contribution to the Debate on the Meaning of the Place-name Km.t

Asar Imhotep

A research-led reading path through language, cultural concepts and African intellectual history. Discover A Contribution to the Debate on the Meaning of the Place-name Km.t through the linked author

A General Theory of Oblivion

José Eduardo Agualusa

A Goddess Has Several Options

Chantelle Chiwetalu

A Grain of Wheat

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

A Man of the People

Chinua Achebe

A Master of Djinn

P. Djèlí Clark

A Question of Power

Bessie Head

A Song of Legends Lost

M. H. Ayinde

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

Roseanne A. Brown

Malik enters the festival of Solstasia seeking safety for his sisters, while Princess Karina faces the death of her mother and a precarious court. A spirit’s bargain sends their paths toward an imposs

A Spell of Good Things

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

A Última Tragédia

Abdulai Silá

ALIENATIONS: Understanding Alienation, Its Mechanisms, and How to Overcome It

Ne Nlaza Kusimbiko

A child’s name is altered on an enrollment form. From that quiet act, Ne Nlaza Kusimbiko traces how alienation travels through language, family life, schooling, beauty, employment and institutions—and

Aaluja: Cyena-Ntu Religion and Philosophy, Vol. II

Asar Imhotep · 2020

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Aaluja: Rescue, Reinterpretation and the Restoration of Major Ancient Egyptian Themes, Vol. I

Asar Imhotep · 2013

A research-led reading path through language, cultural concepts and African intellectual history. Discover Aaluja: Rescue, Reinterpretation and the Restoration of Major Ancient Egyptian Themes, Vol. I

Abyssinian Chronicles

Moses Isegawa

Africa Must Unite

Kwame Nkrumah

Africa Unite ! Une histoire du panafricanisme

Amzat Boukari-Yabara · 2014

Follow the events, people and institutions that shaped the intellectual and political history of the African world. This entry guides readers to the author’s verified bibliography for Africa Unite ! U

African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo

Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau

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African Epistemology vs Western Initiation

Kibavuidi Nsiangani · 2025

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African Philosophy: The Pharaonic Period, 2780–330 BC

Théophile Obenga

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African Presence in Early Asia

Ivan Van Sertima; Runoko Rashidi

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African Psycho

Alain Mabanckou

Afrotopia

Felwine Sarr

Felwine Sarr asks readers to imagine African futures without accepting inherited rankings of progress as the only measures of success. His essay explores the relationship between culture, economic cho

Afterlives

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Akata Witch

Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor's fantasy follows Sunny, a Nigerian American teenager discovering powers and a community of learning hidden beside ordinary life. Her new education tests received ideas about identity a

All Our Names

Dinaw Mengestu

Allah Is Not Obliged

Ahmadou Kourouma

Allocution de circonstance par le récipiendaire

Théophile Obenga · 2017

From comparative language research to the long history of the Congo, this work belongs to Théophile Obenga’s wider historical and linguistic bibliography. Explore the publisher catalogue for Allocutio

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Amkoullel, the Fula Boy

Amadou Hampâté Bâ

An Elegy for Easterly

Petina Gappah

An Orchestra of Minorities

Chigozie Obioma

Anatomy of a Disappearance

Hisham Matar

Anowa

Ama Ata Aidoo

Anthills of the Savannah

Chinua Achebe

Antériorité des civilisations nègres : mythe ou vérité historique ?

Cheikh Anta Diop · 1967

A defining contribution to African historiography and the debate on how language, history and evidence shape our understanding of Africa. Read the edition record for Antériorité des civilisations nègr

Apple Black — Vol. 1

Odunze Oguguo (Whyt Manga)

Sano has been raised away from the world, trained to become the savior known as the Trinity. When he finally joins other young sorcerers at a guild, his unusual powers bring him both allies and danger

Arrow of God

Chinua Achebe

Astonishing the Gods

Ben Okri

At the Fount of Creation

Tobi Ogundiran

Au Tchad sous les étoiles

Joseph Brahim Seid

Aya

Marguerite Abouet

Aya de Yopougon — Tome 1

Marguerite Abouet

Yopougon, Abidjan, à la fin des années 1970. Aya poursuit ses ambitions tandis que ses amies Bintou et Adjoua composent avec la famille, les amours et les sorties du quartier. Marguerite Abouet et Clé

Aya: Life in Yop City

Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie

Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie bring readers into the bustle of Yopougon, where Aya and her friends negotiate friendship, romance and competing ambitions. The visual storytelling gives everyda

Aya: Love in Yop City

Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie

Aya and her circle return with choices that become harder to postpone. Education, independence, family expectations and friendship tug at one another while life around them refuses to stop moving.

Balada de Amor ao Vento

Paulina Chiziane

Balbala

Abdourahman A. Waberi

Behold the Dreamers

Imbolo Mbue

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

Maaza Mengiste

Beneath the flower’s gaze

Kevin Rigathi

Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

Bird Summons

Leila Aboulela

Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State

Cheikh Anta Diop · 1974

A defining contribution to African historiography and the debate on how language, history and evidence shape our understanding of Africa. Read the edition record for Black Africa: The Economic and Cul

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James

Black Mamba Boy

Nadifa Mohamed

Black Moses

Alain Mabanckou

Black Navel

Paul Olisaeloka Anozie

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon

Bound to Violence

Yambo Ouologuem