Collections Littéraires / Africain

Images Out of Africa: The Virginia Garner Diaries of the Africa Motion Picture Project

de Virginia Garner

In 1938, Virginia and Ray Garner began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons. This book features Virginia Garner's diaries, which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s...

Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing

de Rob Spillman

A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature

Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality...

Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960

de Terence Ranger

This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel 'Butterfly Burning', which is set in the Bulawayo townships in 1946 and dedicated to the author. It is an attempt to explore what...

The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars: Peace or Truce

de Douglas H. Johnson

Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by political and civil strife. Most commentators have attributed the country's recurring civil war either to an age-old racial divide between Arabs and Africans,...

J.M. Coetzee's Austerities

de Graham Bradshaw & Michael Neill

Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume seeks to align the South African dimension of Coetzee's writing with his "late modernist" aesthetic. It includes essays exploring...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading

de Brendon Nicholls

This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that the mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial to Ngugi's ideological...

J.M. Coetzee and the Paradox of Postcolonial Authorship

de Jane Poyner

Illuminating J.M. Coetzee's preoccupation, from Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Year, with the paradox of postcolonial authorship centering on the authority authorship engenders, Jane Poyner examines Coetzee's line...

African Contributions in Shaping the Worldwide Intellectual Property System

de Tshimanga Kongolo

Africa is playing an increasingly significant role in the domain of international intellectual property law, and this book underlines the contributions made by African countries as a group to the development...

Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism

de Malinda S. Smith

This meticulously researched, forcibly argued and accessibly written collection explores the many and complex ways in which Africa has been implicated in the discourses and politics of September 11, 2001. Written...

Anatomy of Violence: Understanding the Systems of Conflict and Violence in Africa

de Belachew Gebrewold

With a focus on Africa, this study examines three structurally interdependent conflict systems to highlight the complexities of transboundary and transregional conflict systems. The systemic approach permits...

Uncovering African Agency: Angola's Management of China's Credit Lines

de Lucy Corkin

In this thought provoking and original work Lucy Corkin demonstrates how Angola has been amongst the most successful of African nations to use China's involvement in the region to grow their economies and solicit...

Summoning the Rains: Third FEMRITE Regional Residency for African Women Writers

de Hilda Twongyeirwe & Ellen Banda-Aaku

One of the greatest challenges faced by African women writers is finding the time and the space to write. In November 2011 the third FEMRITE African Women Writers Residency alleviated this challenge for 15 women...

We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa

de Dike Okoro

We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries.

The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945

de Adrian Roscoe

Columbia's guides to postwar African literature paint a unique portrait of the continent's rich and diverse literary traditions. This volume examines the rapid rise and growth of modern literature in the three...

Long Time Coming: Short Writings from Zimbabwe

de Jane Morris

Long Time Coming: Short Writings from Zimbabwe has been chosen by New Internationalist as one of their two 'Best Books of 2009'. The book brings together short stories and poems from thirty-three writers that...

The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945

de Gareth Cornwell, Dirk Klopper & Craig Mackenzie

From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid....

Writing Still: New stories from Zimbabwe

de Irene Staunton

This anthology of twenty-two short stories provides a representative sample of the range and quality of writing in Zimbabwe at the turn of the century, and an impressionistic reflection of the years since independence...

Writing Free

de Irene Staunton

In this fifth anthology of Zimbabwean short stories from Weaver Press fifteen writers respond to the topic of writing free, and offer their thoughts about how and why they wrote as they did. The stories reflect...

Women Writing Zimbabwe

de Irene Staunton

The fifteen stories in Women Writing Zimbabwe offer a kaleidoscope of fresh, moving, and comic perspectives on the way in which events of the last decade have impacted on individuals, women in particular.

Laughing Now

de Irene Staunton

Laughing Now demonstrates the enduring capacity of Zimbabweans to find humour in even the most difficult of circumstances. The stories embrace funerals, dancing competitions, family tensions, rampant inflation...