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Alagiah, George
A PASSAGE TO AFRICA
The former BBC Africa Correspondent emigrated with his family from Sri Lanka
to Ghana in 1960.
Mixing political insight and personal testimony he here provides a powerful
testament to a continent in which he feels at home. He chronicles the horror,
the hope and the humanity he has borne witness to: from the ‘kleptocracy’
of Mobutu’s Zaire to the political expediency of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe;
from the playground petulance of Liberia’s child soldiers to the towering
moral authority of Nelson Mandela. 34 b/w photos, bibliography, index. 286pp.
UK. LITTLE, BROWN & CO, 0316855545
2001 HB £16.99, OUR PRICE UNTIL JANUARY 31st 2002 £12.75
Note: A limited number of signed copies available!
16626 Chinodya,
Shimmer
CAN WE TALK and Other Stories
Opening with the puzzled and innocent view of a boy looking in on the adult
world from outside, this collection follows the transition from childhood
to adult life. Youthful desires for prosperity, love and a purpose in life
are undermined by experiences of humiliation, compromise and a failure to
communicate, in a process that reflects a wider disillusionment and decline
in post-independence Zimbabwe.
In the final story, cynicism turns to anger as the narrator, facing the breakdown
of his marriage, challenges his audience to confront the inaction that leads
to disappointment and the deep-seated loneliness and alienation at the root
of our estrangements. 154pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS' SERIES, 0435912054
2001 Paperback £6.50, OUR PRICE UNTIL JANUARY 31st 2002 £4.88
19759 De
Witte, Ludo
THE ASSASSINATION OF LUMUMBA
Exposes the role of the Belgian government, the US government and its CIA,
the UN, Mobutu and others in the assasination of independent Congo's first
leader
'We will never know what Patrice Lumumba might have accomplished had he been
allowed to live. But with this riveting book we know the full history of his
murder, a tragedy that still reverberates forty years later. Ludo De Witte
has carefully brought to light the shameful story that Belgian officialdom
worked so long to gide or distort.' Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's
Ghost.
Black & white illustrations, map, notes, bib, index, xxvi, 224pp, UK
2001 HB £17.00, OUR PRICE UNTIL JANUARY 31st 2002 £12.75
18285 Japin,
Arthur
THE TWO HEARTS OF KWASI BOACHI
Novel based on the true story of two young African princes given to King Willem
I of the Netherlands by the King of the Ashanti as surety in a deal they have
brokered over illegal slave trading. 342pp, UK. VINTAGE, 0099287870
2001 PB £6.99, OUR PRICE UNTIL JANUARY 31st 2002 £5.25
19827 Larson,
Charles R.
THE ORDEAL OF THE AFRICAN WRITER
Only a small number of African writers - Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin
Farah, Wole Soyinka - have become known outside their own continent. They
also face enormous obstacles within Africa to get their work published, let
alone to support themselves financially from their writing. Charles Larson
combines writers' testimony, pen portraits of their lives, and factual investigation
to explore the problem. Who is the readership in Africa? How do African publishing
houses treat their authors? What are the consequences of political repression?
And can anything be done to build a more supportive environment for African
writers? Notes, bib, index, 192pp, UK. ZED BOOKS, 1856499316
2001 PB £14.95, OUR PRICE UNTIL JANUARY 31ST 2002 £11.22
17916 Macey,
David
FRANTZ FANON: A Life
Based on extensive and original research, this is the most complete and objective
biography of Fanon yet written. It chips away the myths that have grown up
around him and reveals Fanon to be a complex figure. Macey places Fanon in
the context of the French Caribbean, with its history of slavery and racism,
and traces his intellectual career as a political thinker and psychiatrist
with great care, setting it against the background of post-war French culture.
Maps, notes, bib, index. xvi, 640pp UK. GRANTA, 1862074585
2001 PB £12.99, OUR PRICE UNTIL JANUARY 31ST 2002 £9.75
19496 Mezlekia,
Nega
NOTES FROM THE HYENA'S BELLY
Memories of My Ethiopian Boyhood
Now in paperback. Set in the period following the overthrow of Emperor Haile
Selassie, this is part autobiography and part social history. The writer portrays
a world where the boundaries of credulity are challenged daily. Nuruddin Farah
describes it as 'the best memoir by an Ethiopian that I've ever read'. 355pp,
CANADA. PENGUIN BOOKS, 0140285822
2001 Paperback £8.99 OUR PRICE UNTIL JANUARY 31ST 2002 £6.75
18142 Peterson,
Scott
ME AGAINST MY BROTHER
At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda
A Journalist Reports from the Battlefields of Africa
Vivid first hand accounts by an American journalist of local, civil and ethnocidal
war in three African countries.
'Journalism, at its best, is the first draft of history. Peterson was there
to draft it in Somalia and Rwanda. His book is likely to emerge as the definitive
study of just how indifferent our leaders can be to the suffering of Africans.'
- The Times (London) B/w maps, notes, index, xxii, 357pp, UK. ROUT`LEDGE,
0415930634
2001 Paperback £9.99 OUR PRICE UNTIL JANUARY 31st 2002 £7.50
20293 Stepan,
Peter
WORLD ART - AFRICA
50 masterpieces of African art selected from the great museums and collections
of the world.
Three millennia are revisited, from the rock art of the Sahara and terracotta
figures from the cultures of Nok and Sokoto (first millennium BC), to bronzes
from the Kingdom of Benin (16th Century) and the banners of the Asafo corporations
(20th Century).
The areas covered include the carpets of the Berbers of Morocco, beadwork
by Ndebele women in South Africa, saltcellars from Sierra Leone and Makonde
masks from East Africa.
Each piece is presented on a double page spread with high quality reproductions
and commentary. 100 full-colour and 20 black & white illustrations, map,
bibliography, 128pp, GERMANY. PRESTEL, 3791325809
2001 Hardback £19.95 OUR PRICE UNTIL JANUARY 31st 2002 £14.95
19677 Tadjo,
Veronique
AS THE CROW FLIES
Like a bird in flight, the reader travels across a borderless landscape composed
of tales of everyday existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths,
becoming aware in the course of the journey of the interconnection of individual
lives.
106pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS' SERIES, 0435912038
2001 Paperback £5.50, OUR PRICE UNTIL JANUARY 31st 2002 £4.13
18804 Wrong,
Michela
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MR KURTZ
New paperback edition. A century after Joseph Conrad's apocalyptic 'Heart
of Darkness' the author revisits the Congo as the era of Mobutu Sese Seko
collapses into absurdity, anarchy and corruption.
'An eloquent, brilliantly researched account, and a remarkably sympathetic
study of a tragic land which, for all its disadvantages, seethes with humour,
passion, febrile energy and some of the best musical rhythms on the African
continent.' Jon Swain. Sunday Times. Gloss, bib, index, x, 324pp, UK. FOURTH
ESTATE, 1841154229
2001 (2000) PB £7.99, OUR PRICE UNTIL JANUARY 31st 2002 £6.00