Non-Fiction

THE LIMITED-EDITION BOX SET is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it...

THE POEMS IN 82ND DIVISION, written in various forms including the villanelle, sonnet, blues poem, duplex, ode, and dramatic monologue, among many others, are collectively a love song to the author's native Nigeria--a former British colony. In the...

Winner of the 2024 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan's "The Origin of Wounds" exhumes fragments of historical accounts that bring us face-to-face with the brutality of national and global wars. Malik's pivotal poems address personal and...

In 2006, the High Court of Uganda became the stage for one of the most controversial trials in the nation's history. A former rebel doctor turned opposition leader, Col. (Rtd) Dr. Kizza Besigye, stood accused of rape in a case that divided the country,...

In 2006, the High Court of Uganda became the stage for one of the most controversial trials in the nation's history. A former rebel doctor turned opposition leader, Col. (Rtd) Dr. Kizza Besigye, stood accused of rape in a case that divided the country,...

A Black, Queer, FeminIst, Disabled, Urbanist Guide, Toolkit, and Companion for modern life on Earth from one of the world's most notable contemporary urbanists and the creator of The Black Urbanist multimedia platform.We all know the rent is too damn...

A Black, Queer, FeminIst, Disabled, Urbanist Guide, Toolkit, and Companion for modern life on Earth from one of the world's most notable contemporary urbanists and the creator of The Black Urbanist multimedia platform.We all know the rent is too damn...

Jonathan Chibuike Ukah, a celebrated lyrical voice among the African Diaspora, reminds us how the present and future are molded from our origins. Love, grief, the marching of time and spiritual endurance weave their varying modal melodies into a single...

What does it mean to navigate UK higher education as a non-academic Black woman, foreign-born and working within predominantly White institutions? This powerful book offers a rare and necessary perspective, uncovering the ways race, gender, and...

Tainted Coffee With 3 Teaspoons of Sugar is a collection of poems and short reflections about survival, faith, and the slow work of healing after abuse. Darcel Ranay Gibson writes with honesty and care, helping readers go from shock and sorrow toward...

Bobby Tyrone grew up in impoverished segregated area called "The Bottom" where he got that last glimpse of unity in the community which he always lived and longed for. After he stole a book from his English teacher, he was put on a self help quest where...

Practice a new framework for dismantling racial bias in our society, our workplaces, and ourselves: by learning to detect it as well as people of color do. How do we combat racism in a world determined to tell us it doesn't exist? To hold the line...