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Tsitsi Dangarembga
‘With its searing observations, devastating exploration of the state of not being , wicked humour and astonishing immersion into the mind of a young woman growing up and growing old…
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The second novel from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of This Mournable Body and Nervous Conditions continues Tambu’s story.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 ‘Magnificent’ Guardian ‘A Masterpiece’ New York Times
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In this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead us on a journey to discover…
In these essays, the award-winning writer dissects the nervous condition of being not only Black, and not only a woman, but also quote-unquote postcolonial . Weaving together the experiences, events…
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The first wound for all of us who are classified as black is empire.
In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and…
A novel that examines how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival.
Laura Green
Literary Identification from Charlotte Bronte to Tsitsi Dangarembga, by Laura Green, seeks to account for the persistent popularity of the novel of formation, from nineteenth-century English through contemporary Anglophone literature…
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Ama Ata Aidoo
Join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic.
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Peter Abrahams
First published in 1946, this novel exposed the condition of black South Africans under a white regime. It presents a portrait of labour discrimination, appalling housing conditions and one man’s…
Hena Ahmad
Deals with the field of postcolonial and Third World feminist studies. This title reevaluates the ways in which Third World women writers interrogate the relationship between woman and nation in…
A collection of essays, poetry, letters and travel diaries, chronicling 10 writers’ journeys across Africa.
Wilson Harris
A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris’ centenary: a visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew…
