The Conversation Africa Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Howard W. FrenchThe Conversation AfricaHoward W. French’s "Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War", is the most recent in a long career of thoughtful and significant literary and journalistic interventions https://t.co/tPGVK1fBJG
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kenya: Policies for Prosperity
Christopher S. AdamThe Conversation AfricaA Central Bank of Kenya governor for eight years between 2007 and 2015, Njuguna Ndung'u is also an accomplished researcher and a University of Nairobi academic https://t.co/3BVsF0C35h
Hardcover, 2011
$140.00$115.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Nigeria
Toyin FalolaThe Conversation AfricaToyin Falola: 3 recent books that explain the work of Nigeria's famous decolonial scholar https://t.co/IzsLHXDTe0
Hardcover, 2015
$108.00$83.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora
Kay Kaufman ShelemayThe Conversation AfricaSing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora is the first study of the forced migration of musicians out of the Horn of Africa dating from the revolution https://t.co/CTIMnTMXrW
Hardcover, 2022
$113.00$88.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Wake Up, This Is Joburg
Tanya ZackThe Conversation AfricaWake Up, This is Joburg is a collaboration between photographer Mark Lewis and urban planner and writer @tanya_zack. Striking images and beautiful texts follow 10 stories the team discovered in urban Johannesburg https://t.co/jn9QZ7dY9L
Hardcover, 2023
$104.95$79.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Who Killed Hammarskjold?: The Un, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa
Susan WilliamsThe Conversation AfricaPublished in 2011, her investigative research titled Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa made history. https://t.co/kPWVeri4us
Paperback, 2017
$23.50$11.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz FanonThe Conversation AfricaFranz Fanon, the Martiniquan born psychiatrist, committed Algerian revolutionary and Pan-African thinker, died 60 years ago on December 6, 1961 just after the publication of his last book, The Wretched of the Earth https://bit.ly/32WH7rQ
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Death and the King's Horseman
Wole SoyinkaThe Conversation AfricaElesin Oba, the King’s Horseman is a new movie coming to Netflix. It is based on Nigeria’s most famous play, Death and the King’s Horseman, written in 1975 by Nobel Prize-winning author, activist and academic Wole Soyinka. https://t.co/gkLRxiptm7
Paperback, 2002
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Need New Names
Noviolet BulawayoThe Conversation Africa#BookerPrize2022 Bulawayo’s celebrated first novel, We Need New Names, was a coming-of-age story about the escapades of a Zimbabwean girl named Darling who ends up living in America. https://t.co/WCqL2hJtdm
Paperback, 2014
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution, Second Edition
Stephen ZunesThe Conversation AfricaThe UN envoy to Western Sahara met on Saturday with Polisario Front in Algeria. @MundyProf Jacob Mundy Unpacks the power plays over Western Sahara, in this article. https://t.co/LWBubBWSBg
Paperback, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book