This collection of essays from eight of the most respected academics in the field brings together a number of critical perspectives to focus on the signal work of a 21st century Ghanaian writer. Amma Darko is recognized in these interdisciplinary...

Presenting information for use inside and outside the classroom, this educational resource sheds light on the impact of black male self-image on schooling. Many questions are explored, including What is the effect on black males raised without fathers?...

This important book documents stimulating and engaging reflections and thoughts from international writers and commentators who collectively validate and establish Soyinka as more than deserving of the honor of the Oxford Professorship of Poetry. The...

BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED, A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, POEMS AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES, edited by Abiodun Oyewole, extends beyond the Black Lives Matter movement's primary agenda of police brutality to acknowledge that even when affronted with slavery,...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING*Named a Best Book of 2017 by The San Francisco Chronicle Named one of Electric Literature's 15 Best Short...

Honourable Mention, African Literature Association, Book of the Year Award--Creative Writing, 2023Where the Baedeker Leads uncovers the many delicate layers that lie in the spaces between departures and arrivals, offering memories and stories. Whether...

"This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism."--Angela DavisThe sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon's landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel WestFirst published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth...

Pack your bags and grab your passport! School's out and we're headed to a beautiful Caribbean island to meet new family, listen to Granny's stories, play with cousins and make amazing memories. You'll want to visit this Summer Island again and again!

Land of Hope and Glory is the Windrush-generation story of Maurice Hope, a Caribbean immigrant whose fascinating journey took him from abject poverty to boxing world champion and receiving an MBE from the Queen.The former WBC light-middleweight titlist...

Black Night is Falling is a book-shaped blues album. Scott Woods' third book of poetry wrestles with ecstatic notions of blackness, the beauty and grief to be found in every 'hood carryout, the colonization of pumpkin spice, and backstage tales of the...

A Story of Love, Loss, and Learning to Eat Soup with a ForkSome lessons are inherited.Others are earned through loss.Jabulani is a powerful, introspective story about a man shaped by hardship, love, and the quiet wisdom of his grandmother - a woman who...