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AFRICAN BOOKS COLLECTIVELiterature 2016

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LITERARY CRITICISM..................2

COLLECTIONS............................6

DRAMA......................................9

FICTION Cameroon................................11 Ghana.....................................12 Nigeria....................................13 South Africa...........................14 Southern Africa......................15 POETRY Cameroon...............................16 Nigeria....................................19 Sierra Leone...........................20 South Africa...........................22

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AFRICAN BOOKS COLLECTIVEAFRICAN BOOKS COLLECTIVE (ABC) is a non-profit Oxford-based, worldwide marketing and distribution outlet for over 2,800 print titles from Africa, of which 900 are also ebooks - scholarly, literature and children’s books. Founded, owned and governed by a group of African publishers, its participants are 157 independent and autonomous African publishers from 24 countries.

Creating writing showcases fiction from writers who have since gone on to international acclaim, such as Yvonne Vera; and some of the exciting emerging voices from Africa, many of them winning local and international prizes. The books encompass the great issues in fiction: love/loss, hope/despair, human dilemmas, beautiful things found in unexpected places. A number of CAINE PRIZE winners or shortlisted writers are included, having first been published in Africa: Florent Couao-Zotti, Laurie Kubuitsile and Okwiri Oduor. NoViolet Bulawayo was shortlisted by the 2013 MAN BOOKER PRIZE. Yewande Omotoso was short-listed for the 2013 ETISALAT PRIZE FOR LITERATURE; and in 2016 Tanure Ojaide was awarded the prestigious FONLON-NICHOLS AWARD at the 42nd annual African Literature Association (ALA) conference in Atlanta.

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AFRICAN BOOKS COLLECTIVE PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERSBENIN

Centre Panfricain de Prospective Sociale/Pan-African Social Prospects Centre, Porto-Novo

BOTSWANA

Foundation for Education with Production, GaboroneLightbooks Publishers, GaboronePyramid Publishing, Gaborone

CAMEROON

Department of Women & Gender Studies, Univ. of BueaLangaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group, BamendaSpears Media Press, Bamenda

ERITREA

HDRI Publishers, Asmara

ETHIOPIA

Addis Ababa Univ. Press, AddisDevelopment Policy Management Forum (DPMF), Addis AbabaForum for Social Studies, Addis AbabaOrganisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Addis Ababa

THE GAMBIA

CenMEDRA, Centre for Media and Development Research in Africa, BakauEducational Services, Serekunda

GHANA

Afram Publications (Ghana) Ltd, AccraAfrica Christian Press, AccraAmanza, AccraAssociation of African Universities, AccraBlackmask, AccraFreedom Publications, AccraGhana Universities Press, AccraSankofa Educational Publishers, AccraSedco Publishing, AccraSEM Financial Training Centre Ltd., AccraSub-Saharan Publishers, AccraThird World Network – Africa, AccraWoeli Publishing Services, Accra

KENYA

Academy Science Publishers, Nairobi, NairobiAfrican Research and Resource Forum (ARRF), NairobiBookmark Africa, NairobiChrisley Ltd, NairobiEast African Educational Publishers, NairobiFocus Publications, NairobiImagine Works, NairobiUniversity of Nairobi Press, NairobiLawAfrica, NairobiLonghorn Publishers, NairobiP-J Kenya, NairobiTwaweza Communications, NairobiZand Graphics, NairobiZapf Chancery Publications Africa, Limuru

LESOTHO

Institute of Southern African Studies, National University of Lesotho, Roma

LIBERIA

Cotton Tree Press, MonroviaOne More Book, Brooklyn

MALAWI

Central Africana, ZombaChancellor College Publications, ZombaE & V Publications, BlantyreImabili Indigenous Knowledge Publications, ZombaKachere Series, ZombaMuzuni Press, MzuzuWASI (Writers Advisory Services International), Zomba

MALI REPUBLIC

Editions Yeelen

MAURITIUS

Editions VIZAVI, Port Louis

MOROCCO

Editions du Sirocco, CasablancaSenso Unico Editions, Mohammedia

NAMIBIA

Brookridge Publishing, Walvis BayReader in Namibian Sociology, WindhoekUniversity of Namibia Press, WindhoekWordweaver Publishing House, Windhoek

NIGERIA

African Heritage Press, LagosApex Books, LagosThe Book Company Ltd., LagosBooks and Gavel, LagosCompumetrics Solutions, LagosCollege Press Publishers, IbadanConcept Publishers, Oyo StateCSS Ltd, LagosDokun Publishing House, IbadanEnicrownfit Publishers, IbadanFourth Dimension Publishing Co. Ltd., EnuguFrontPage Media, LagosHandel Books, Eastern NigeriaHEBN Publishers, IbadanHumanities Publishers, IbadanIbadan Cultural Studies Group, IbadanIbadan University Press, IbadanKemuela Publications, Port HarcourtKraft Books, LagosMaiyati Chambers, LagosMalthouse Press Ltd., LagosManila Publishers Company, AbujaM & J Grand Orbit Communications, Port HarcourtNew Horn Press, IbadanNiyi Osundare, IbadanObafemi Awolowo University Press, Ile IfeOnyoma Research Publications, Port HarcourtOpon Ifa Readers, LagosProgess Publishing Company, EnuguSafari Books, IbadanSaros International Publishers, Port HarcourtSCRIBO Publications, IbadanSociety for Linking Education and Problems, Ile-IfeSpectrum Books Ltd., IbadanStatco Publishers, LagosUniversity of Lagos Press, LagosUniversity Press Ltd., IbadanUrhobo Historical Society, New York & LagosWest African Book Publishers, Ltd, LagosWomen’s Heath & Action Research, Benin CityYintab Books, Lagos

SENEGAL

African Renaissance, DakarCouncil for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar

Union for African Population Studies, Dakar

SIERRA LEONE

PenPoint Publishers, FreetownSierra Leonean Writers Series (SLWS)

SOUTH AFRICA

Africa Institute of South Africa, PretoriaAfrican Minds Publishers, StellenboschAfrican Perspectives, JohannesburgThe African Public Policy and Research Institute, PretoriaAgency for Social Reconstruction, JohannesburgBrenthurst Collection/Frank Horley Books, JohannesburgCover2Cover Books, MuizenbergIdasa, Cape TownIkhwezi Afrika Publishing, East LondonJohnson & KingJames Books, Cape TownMail and Guardian Books, JohannesburgModjaji Books, Cape TownSouthern African Migration Project, Cape Town uHlanga Press, Cape TownUmsinsi Press, Cape TownUniversity of South Africa Press (Unisa Press), Pretoria

SWAZILAND

Academic Publishers, MbabaneJAN Publishing Centre, MbabaneTTI Publishing Ltd, Mbabane

TANZANIA

Centre for Energy, Environment, Science & Technology (CEEST), Dar es SalaamDar es Salaam University Press, Dar es SalaamE & D Ltd., Dar es SalaamMkuki na Nyota Publishers, Dar es SalaamTanzania Educational Publishers, BukobaTanzania Publishing House, Dar es Salaam

UGANDA

Fountain Publishers Ltd., KampalaFEMRITE (Uganda Women Writers’ Association), KampalaPelican Publishers, KampalaProgressive Publishing House, Kampala

ZAMBIA

Bookworld Publishers, LusakaGadsden Publishers, LusakaImage Publishers, LusakaThe Lembani Trust, Zambia, LusakaMultimedia Zambia, LusakaUniversity of Zambia Press (UNZA Press), LusakaZambia Women Writers Association, Lusaka

ZIMBABWE

Africa Community Publishing & Development Trust, Harareamabooks Publishers, BulawayoAmagugu Publishers, BulawayoBaobab Books, HarareBooklove Publishers, GweruGALZ, HarareKimaathi Publishing House, HarareMambo Press, GweruSAPES Trust, HarareSouthern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC), HarareSouthern and Eastern African Trade, Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI), HarareUniversity of Zimbabwe Publications, HarareWeaver Press Ltd, HarareWomen and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust, HarareZimbabwe International Book Fair Trust, HarareZimbabwe Publishing House, Harare

2016 FONLON -NICHOLS AWARD WINNER - TANURE OJAIDE

TANURE OJAIDEA renowned poet, Tanure Ojaide has won major national and international poetry awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region (1987), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), twice the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988 and 1997), and thrice the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Poetry Prize (1988, 1994 and 2004. In 2016 Ojaide was awarded the prestigious Fonlon-Nichols Award at the 42nd annual African Literature Association (ALA) conference in Atlanta.

For Tanure Ojaide, “the creative writer is never an airplant, but someone who is grounded in some specific place. It is difficult to talk of many writers without their identification with place. Every writer’s roots are very important in understanding his or her work.” He has read from his poetry in different fora in Africa, Britain, Canada, Israel, Mexico, The Netherlands, and the United States. Some of his poems have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Spanish and French. He is currently the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Drawing the Map of Heaven. An African Writer in America

Less a purely personal tale and more a story of the many other African immigrants in the United States Ojaide in the text uses “we” to speak collectively for a traditionally communal society now residing in an individualistic setting.

228 pages | 2012Malthouse Press, NigeriaPb: 978-978-8422-525 $31.00/£22.00ePub: 978-978-8422-693$9.99/£6.99

Love Gifts

Love Gifts is a love sequence: the poetic rendering of the relationship between the minstrel and his muse over a long period. The poet uses the relationship of the two personages to investigate the human condition; hence the poems deal with dreams, desires, frustrations, hopes, contentment, and seeking meaning in life.

110 pages |2013African Heritage Press, NigeriaPb: 978-0-9790858-9-5 $23.00/£18.00

Ordering the African imaginationEssays on Culture and Literature

The focus of this book is African culture and its imaginative productions in the arts, especially in literature. The author also examines the direction of African culture and its artistic creations in a global age.

184 pages | 2007Malthouse Press, NigeriaPb: 978-978-023-204-7$39.00/£26.00s

The Old Man in a State House and Other Stories

The Old Man in a State House and Other Stories is a literary canvas which captures the restless matrix that is today’s Africa: the corruptive influence of a corrosive oil economy, environmental degradation, wealth and hubris, love and more.

166 pages | 2012African Heritage Press, NigeriaPb: 978-0-9790858-7-1$23.00/£18.00

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AFRICAN LITERATURE and the FUTUREEdited by Gbemisola Adeoti

Many African countries achieved independence from their colonisers over five decades ago, but the people and the continent largely remain mere spectators in the arena of their own dance. The post-independence states are supposed to be sovereign, but the levers of economic and political powers still reside in the donor states. Not in many fora is the complex reality that defines Africa more trenchantly articulated than in imaginative literature produced about and on the continent. This is the crux of the essays collected in African Literature and the Future. The book reflects on Africa’s past and present, addressing anxieties about the future through the epistemological lens of literature. The contributors peep ahead from a backward glance. They dissect the trend and tenor of politics and their impact on the socio-cultural and economic development of the continent as portrayed in imaginative writings over the years. One salient feature of African literature is the close affinity between art and politics in its polemics. This is well established in all the six essays in the book as the authors stress the interconnections between literature and society in their textual analyses. On the whole, there is an overwhelming feeling of angst and pessimism, but the authors perceive a glimmer of hope despite daunting odds, under different conditions. Thus, they depict the plausible fate of Africa in the twenty-first century, as informed by its ancient and recent past, gleaned from primary texts.

GBEMISOLA ADEOTI holds a PhD in English from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He worked as a reporter/researcher with The News magazine, Lagos, before joining the English Department of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, where he is currently a professor and director of the Institute of Cultural Studies. His areas of teaching and research include dramatic literature, literary history, literary theory and popular culture. His publications include Naked Soles, Voices Offstage, Aesthetics of Adaptation in Contemporary Nigerian Drama and Nigerian Video Film in Yoruba. He co-edited (with Bjorn Beckman) Intellectuals and African Development: Pretension and Resistance in AfricanPolitics and (with Femi Osofisan) Playwriting in Nigeria Today.

112 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2015 | CODESRIA, SenegalPb: 978-2-86978-633-2: $25.00/£20.00

ALSO OF INTEREST:

IBA. Essays on African Literature in Honour of Oyin OgunbaEdited by Wole Ogundele and Gbemisola Adeoti

This Festschrift, containing twenty-two essays by African scholars of African lit-erature, is published as a tribute to Oyin Gunba, a renowned scholar of African literature, specifically oral literature and drama.

288 pages | 254 x 178 mm | 2003 | Obafemi Awolowo University Press, Nigeria Pb: 978-978-136-136-4: $46.00/£33.00

LITERARY CRITICISM

ABDILATIF ABDALLA: POET IN POLITICSedited by Rose Marie Beck and Kai Kresse

Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet in Politics celebrates the work of Abdilatif Abdalla, one of Kenya’s most well-known poets and a committed political activist. It includes commentary essays on aspects of Abdilatif Abdalla’s work and life, through inter-weaving perspectives on poetry and politics,

language and history; with contributions by East African writers and scholars of Swahili literature, including Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Said Khamis, Ken Walibora, Ahmed Rajab, Mohamed Bakari, and Sheikh Abdilahi Nassir, among others.

Abdalla became famous in 1973, with the publication of Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony), a collection of poems written secretly in prison during three years of solitary confinement (1969-72). He was convicted of circulating pamphlets against Jomo Kenyatta’s KANU government, criticizing it as ‘dictatorial’ and calling for political resistance in the pamphlet, ‘Kenya: Twendapi?’ (Kenya: where are we heading?). His poetry epitomizes the ongoing currency of classic Swahili form and language, while his work overall, including translations and editorships, exemplifies a two-way mediation between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ perspectives. It makes old and new voices of Swahili poetry and African literature accessible to a wider readership in East Africa, and beyond. Abdalla has lived in exile since 1973, in Tanzania, London, and subsequently, until now, in Germany. Nevertheless, Swahili literature and Kenyan politics have remained central to his life.

154 pages | 234 x 156mm | 2016Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, TanzaniaPb: 978-9987-753-38-3 $22.00/£16.00

CHINUA ACHEBE’S LEGACYILLUMINATIONS FROM AFRICAEdited by James Ogude

Chinua Achebe’s novels and essays have always drawn our attention to issues of memory, the story, history and our own obligation to history as Africans. Achebe constantly goes back to the authority of narrative - the story; and as the subsequent generations of African writers such as Chimamanda Adichie

keep returning to, to celebrate Africa’s many stories, its moments of failure and triumph. Achebe, more than any other writer on this continent, has inspired many, and hopefully the African story tellers of the coming centuries, irrespective of their location will continue to be inspired by him. This collection of essays is an enduring tribute to this rich legacy of Achebe.

PROFESSOR JAMES OGUDE is a Senior Research Fellow and the Deputy Director at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria – a position he took up at the beginning of May, 2013. Until his recent appointment he was a Professor of African Literature and Cultures in the School of Literature, Language and Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he worked since 1994, serving as the Head of African Literature and also Assistant Dean – Research, in the Faculty of Humanities.

180 pages | 244 x 170mm | 2015Africa Institute of South AfricaPb: 978-0-7983-0490-0 $28.00/£20.00

LITERARY CRITICISM


LITERATURE, HISTORY and IDENTITY in NORTHERN NIGERIA Edited by Ismaila A. Tsiga & M.O. Bhadmus

This unique collection of articles on literature in northern Nigeria is in three parts. Part one presents an overview of the running theme, in which Na’Allah explores the theoretical relationship between literature, history and identity in northern Nigeria, using the proverbial story of

the blind man who holds a lamp while walking alone in the night. Similarly, Tsiga undertakes in a long bibliographical essay, a notable survey of the relationship between literature, history and identity in northern Nigeria, chronicling the development of life writing in the region dating back three hundred years. Part two focuses on the relationship between literature and history in northern Nigeria and begins with the article in which Illah investigates the theme. In what might have been the scholar’s last conference article before his sudden death, Nasidi, in Part three, opens the debate on literature and identity in northern Nigeria, eloquently theorising on the relationship with Foucault, his favourite philosopher.

408 pages | 229 x 152mm | 2015Safari Books, NigeriaPb: 978-978-8431-87-9 $40.00/£28.00

LITERATURE, LITERARY CRITICISM AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Charles E. Nnolim

The lectures in this book were delivered at significant points in Professor Nnolim’s career. ‘Literature and the Common Welfare’ (1988) was his inaugural lecture, his declaration that he had come of age as an academic, as a young Professor of literature. In August 2000, he delivered ‘Literature, the Arts and

Cultural Development’ to announce his induction as a member of the Nigerian Academy of Letters in which he was finally admitted as a Fellow in 2005. In this lecture, Nnolim makes strong claims about the validity of literature in Nigeria’s national life. In August, 2007, Professor Nnolim delivered ‘The Writer’s Responsibility and Literature in National Development’. Here he re-emphasizes the importance of literary studies in Nigeria’s national life and goes on to lament the total neglect of Nigeria’s artists, writers, and world class intellectuals in national life. The fourth lecture, ‘Morning Yet on Criticism Day: the Criticism of African Literature in the Twentieth Century’, was given as a laureate of the Nigerian National Merit Award, 2009. It unifies Professor Nnolim’s various pleas for the role of literature in national development but particularly re-emphasizing the problem of language in Nigeria’s creative writing and urging governmental intervention in the matter.

122 pages | 216 x 140mm | 2016Malthouse Press, NigeriaPb: 978-978-53250-8-9 $24.00/£18.00

LITERARY CRITICISM



Female Subjectivities in African Literature Edited by Charles Smith & Chin Ce

In literature the ambiguous portraiture of female characters by some male writers and the phallic nature of men’s writings have proved a matter of concern to female writers in Africa. For decades within African writing the issue of silencing was interrogated particularly as it addressed the muting and marginalisation of black women by male writers through the script of patriarchy which men follow. In this series the literary and dramatic tradition of feminist concern for women’s issues are continued and novels, plays and poetry are reviewed. These demonstrate a commitment to exploring the challenges facing modern women in changing times and excerpting the issues of gender, feminism, identity, race, history, national and international politics specifically as they affect women. Female Subjectivities collectively answers the need to question and envisage the possibilities of literary revisions, showing what it would mean to revise even the Feminist psychoanalyst in a discourse on the subjectivity of women of colour.

204 pages | 229 x 152mm | 2015 Handel Books, NigeriaPb: 978-978-37036-2-9$30.00/£20.00

Oral Tradition in African LiteratureEdited by Charles Smith & Chin Ce

This study of oral tradition in African literature is borne from the awareness that African verbal arts still survive in works of discerning writers and in the conscious exploration of its tropes, perspectives, philosophy and consciousness, its complementary realism, and ontology. This delineates authentic African response to memory, history and other possible cotmparisons with modern existence, such as witnessed in recent developments of the African novel. The series seeks to adopt innovative and multilayered perspectives on orality or indigeneity and its manifestations on contemporary African and new literatures. The studies use multi-faceted theories of orality which discuss and deconstruct notions of history, truth-claims and identity-making, not excluding gender and genealogy - cultural and biological- studies in African contexts.

194 pages | | 229 x 152mm| 2015 Handel Books, NigeriaPb: 978-978-36035-9-2$30.00/£20.00

LITERARY CRITICISM

Indigenous Heritage in African LiteratureEdited by Charles Smith & Chin Ce

This edition commits to the depths of black identities in modern black texts. The cultural reclamation of an African origin and/or roots as tied to the solemn remembrance of the Ancestor has demanded the intense attention of enlightened black writers for the social and psychic revaluation of their generation and others that follow. In this series the status is further examined of the oral performer in African traditional societies. This encouraged a wide range of human expression to create identity for members of the community Africa; and a challenge is proposed to sustain the methods of creative transmission through the continuing presence of these African performers: living proofs of the survival of her oral traditions, especially in the tpropulsion of communicative actionand the communicative strength of men, women and children in the community.

192 pages | 229 x 152mm | 2015 Handel Books, NigeriaPb: 978-978-37036-1-2$30.00/£20.00


COLLECTIONS

THE POT AND OTHER STORIESStories of the 6th FEMRITE Residency for African Women Writers Edited by Ellen Banda-Aaku

Imagine you are held aloft by a group of wonderful women from Uganda, Ghana, Botswana, South Africa and Niger. Then with skill and grace you are carried across Africa to meet engaging characters that they know well. Reading The Pot and other stories is both a delightful literary experience as well as a journey deep into intimate spaces on the Continent. Although the stories are individualistic and they tackle a variety of themes, there is seamlessness in the style. Reading this collection we are reminded that Africa is a birthplace of human kind and as such the origin of all storytelling. These writers have skilfully crafted a collection that honours an ancient tradition. This anthology presents a range of issues. Some stories paint everyday life with a light comic touch as in the story in which a policeman sees the future of his marriage suddenly tied to the destiny of a cooking pot, while others use the mundane as the vehicle to probe difficult questions of destiny or the role of a local story-telling in a country with a brutal history.

138 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2015 | Femrite Publications, Uganda, Pb: 978-9970-480-05-0: $19.00/£14.00

ALSO OF INTEREST:

In the Belly of the Lion An Anthology of new Sierra Leonean short StoriesEdited by Gbanabom Hallowell

The stories in the anthology flash different pictures of being in their unique time capsules. The writers have examined the toll the collective human trauma has taken and brought on board on the Sierra Leonean way of life, a way of life that now requires a new way of life. ‘In the Belly of the Lion’ represents the voices of the generation of writers whose works came of age in the middle of the war and after...

230 pages | 229 x 152mm | 2016 Sierra Leonean Writers Series Pb: 978-99910-54-18-6 $26.00/£18.00

Nothing to See Here Stories of the 5th Residency for African Women WritersEdited by Hilda Twongyeirwe

Sixteen African women writers ably deal with the politics of nationhood and identity, and the burden and beauty of womanity. From the serious, to the absurd to the seriously absurd, these stories will leave you pondering, crying and laughing as you travel from East Africa to Southern Africa through to West Africa. - ZUKISWA WARNNER

284 pages | 216 x 140mm | 2015 | Femrite Publications, Uganda | Pb: 978-9970-480-04-3 $20.00/£15.00 | eBook: 978-9970-480-06-7: $9.99/£6.99

BEST “New” AFRICAN POETS 2015 ANTHOLOGYEdited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka & Daniel da Purificação

Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry Progeria contains poems that deal with a panoply of issues, feelings, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, on identity, Africanness; Blackness, Whiteness, Arabic, Asian, culture,

heritage, place, politics, (mis)governance, corruption, exile, loss, memory, spirituality, sex, gender, love, the individual and many others. It travels from Cape to Cairo, Monrovia to Nairobi, rooms in the beautiful Moroccan Sahara desert, pastoral idyllic Savannas, the rainy equatorial rainforests and then flies into the Diasporas as each poet speaks his/her own story of the Africa that she/he knows, dreams and envisions with protective pride and resolute dedication.

386 pages | 216 x 140mm | 2016Langaa RPCIG, CameroonPb: ISBN 978-9956-763-48-1 $35.00/£25.00

COLLECTIONS

WRITING MYSTERY and MAYHEMEdited by Irene Staunton

This eighth anthology of twelve short stories from Weaver Press reveals again the range and variety, compassion and humour, irony and tragedy with which Zimbabwean writers observe the world around them. Several writers adopt a tongue-in-cheek approach to the subject: Naishe Nyamubaya

takes us behind graphic newspaper headlines with a story of goblins, Jonathan Brakarsh turns the world inside out by constantly reversing our expectations, and Lawrence Hoba draws a situation both ‘collateral and incompatible’. It is a characteristic of crime fiction to defy expectation, as Farai Mudzingwa, Bongani Sibanda and Valerie Tagwira do in exploring the ramifications of sudden death. But if we are surprised by some stories, we can only be moved those which draw on the pain and vulnerablity of both the victims and those left behind. Godess Bvukutwa, Isabella Matambanadzo and Donna Kirstein help us to reflect on injustice and loss. Reading this collection of stories, with subjects ranging from tokolosh to tsunami, and from ghosts to goldfish, reminds us that the world is crazier than we think.

118 pages | 216 x 140mm | 2015Weaver Press, ZimbabwePb: 978-1-77922-278-7 $20.00/£16.00eBook: 978-1-77922-280-0 $9.99/£6.99


AFRICAN SHORT STORIES: VOL 2Edited by Charles Smith & Chin Ce

Bequeathing an enduring tenet for the creative enterprise, African Short Stories vol 2 seeks to upturn the status quo by the art of narration. Whether they are stories of the whistle blower estranged and yet sounding the warning for heaven and earth to hear, or a ragtag army

fleeing in the wake of a monstrous reptilian onslaught upon her peace, there pervades a sense of ultimate victory in this collection. We can feel the gentle kick of a baby in the womb of a maiden in desperation, or we can muse at the two adolescent genii on the trail of their dreams from the sunset of mutual deceit into the daylight of true becoming. Victory is laid out in that awesome kindness of a total stranger which affirms the divinity latent in even our most harrowing existence. With thirty five stories in two parts these literary experiments compel attention to the courageous hearts and minds that brighten the African universe of narration. Their vibrant notes coming from all corners of north, west, east and south fill us with encouragement and optimism for the contemporary short fiction in Africa.

312 pages | 229 x 152mm | 2015Handel Books, NigeriaPb: 978-978-36035-8-5 $32.00/£22.00

NEW BLACK AND AFRICAN WRITING: VOL 2Edited by Charles Smith & Gloria Monica Emezue

New Black and African Writing Vol. 2 is a concluding edition of a series that has featured many critical entries and reviews on canonical African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. This second edition explores intricacies of relationships and associations, the recurrent tropes for the interpretation and understanding of

historical connections, and the shaping of thought brought into fictional and cultural renditions that are evolving and continually reassessed although around the periphery of older canons. The quest for a meaningful heuristic for approaching contemporary arts is almost totally redefined by the contributions of eminent scholars of our time whose balancing and correspondence create room for complementarity of values and toward cultural understanding and value appreciation in contemporary society.

318 pages | 229 x 152mm | 2015 Handel Books, NigeriaPb: 978-97837036-3-6 $35.00/£25.00

COLLECTIONS


PRISON GRADUATES A Drama in Four Legs Efo Kodjo Mawugbe

The Prison Graduates was the winning play in the English as a 2nd Language category of the BBC World Service/British Council International Radio Playwriting Competition 2009. The play is a political satire set in Ghana, and talks about serious issues on a light note. It highlights situations in Ghana and Africa as a whole; these include young and energetic people paying huge sums of money to go abroad to seek greener pastures, and the hospitals where ‘cash and carry’ method is practiced. The situation where churches are corrupt and the congregation is naïve... Efo makes us laugh at our folly, whilst realising that we are all part of the challenges our countries face, and can contribute to the solutions.

EFO KODJO MAWUGBE was the prolific author of over twenty plays, hundreds of articles (published under the female pseudonym ‘Araba Season’ in The Mirror), and the novel My Father’s Song (see pg 12.)

96 pages | 178 x 127 mm | 2015 | Afram Publications, GhanaPaperback:978-9964-70-538-1 $18.00/£15.00

Majestic Revolt. A PlayPeter Omoko

In April 1927, the British colonial government introduced a “head” tax to the former Warri Province. On July 1927, the people of the Province revolted against the imposition of the tax. When studied against the backdrop of contemporary Nigeria/Niger Delta politics, the 1927 revolt was a landmark in the “resource control” struggle of the oppressed, marginalized, and exploited people of the oil-rich Niger Delta.

110 pages | 2016 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Pb: 978-978-54070-4-4 $19.00/£14.00

NEW PUBLICATIONS :

The Throne of the Ghost Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe

In four hundred and eighty moons ago or thereabout, when Africa was a huge farmland, there lived a king in a place known today as Niamina Dankunku, who was endowed with dignity as a result of his wisdom and unquestionable character and well known within the Senegambia, Guinea and Mali region. He had two wives and six children, his first son Ishaq was to succeed him upon his death, but Sheriff, his second son, and his mother Awa, led Ishaq astray and planned to kill him. Maimuna, the Jinn who loves Ishaq, was afraid to tell him. But Mariama, a friend of Maimuna, also a Jinn, stepped into their relationship and made things more difficult for Maimuna...

102 pages | 2016 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Pb: 978-978-949-713-3 $19.00/£14.00

DRAMA - WEST AFRICA



DRAMA

A la Tête du Client and Fly Over the Crooks Crooked nest Mercédès Fouda

“A la tête du client is a vitriolic indictment of the unsettling myths and stereotypes surrounding the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Cameroon. It problematizes and lampoons the unethical practices of medical personnel that have made this disease an intractable ailment in Cameroon and beyond. The English translation of A la tête du client titled Fly over the Crooks’ Crooked Nest denounces and scourges the predatory behaviour of the wicked who take advantage of the weakest in a context of HIV/AIDs. When two rascals decide to open their own laboratory for medical analysis, without any skills or equipment, the least harmful results amount to ‘Obama... blood type O, Axelrod...blood type A...’”

- DR. PETER WUTEH VAKUNTA, University of Indianapolis

MERCÉDÈS FOUDA is a multitalented Cameroonian artist who sees herself first and foremost as a citizen of the world. Her literary works include: A la tête du client; le franco-faufile illustré; Je parle camerounais; Les dessous de plats; Vivre mort; Maman me foetus; Vacances quelconques a nsimi; and Fly Over the Crooks’ Crooked nest

120 pages | 2015 | 203 x 127mmLangaa RPCIG, CameroonPb: 978-9956-762-28-6$20.00/£16.00

The SwampsEkpe Inyang

The Swamps presents a debauched tapestry of an utterly dehumanised Cameroonian society seeking regeneration through a judicious deployment of myth, history, parables, song, mimicry and dance. The inclusion of these features of orature in this political allegory creates particular moods and atmospheres and lends colour and movement to dramatic action. The structure and function of the play defines the individual’s identity within the cosmic context which approximates the past and present. Inyang’s analysis of class political behaviour in Cameroon exposes the complete erosion of civil liberties by corrupt and venal elite. He impresses the theatre audience with his dramatic eloquence and the fervour of his commitment, and emblazones his name in the front ranks of alternative theatre. This is a rare theatrical gem that demonstrates a brilliant, sustained invention, with great depth and suggestive power.


The King’s WagesAugustine Brempong

Containing hints of political satire, The King’s Wages is a play that seeks to unmask the wicked absurdity of getting power at all costs. It tells the story of Tutu, a man, who wants to be king and murders his own brother in pursuit of his plan. Tutu finally becomes king, but soon realizes that there is more to it than he bargained for. The chief among the Akan gods, Tano, becomes angry and is bent on punishing Tutu for the fratricide he committed. The ghost of Tutu’s brother comes back to haunt him and Tutu is desperate to avert this from happening again. He does not only do the unthinkable as an expedient to save his life, but also manifests his weakness by following the advice of his long-time friend Bota. As a result, he is cursed by his own daughter who commits suicide immediately afterwards. In the end, he loses everything but his life.


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BOUNDARIESEmmanuel Fru Doh

In Boundaries, Musang, from the Grassfields, falls in love with Etonde from the Coast. Although aware of some existing tension and unfounded mistrust between both camps, the couple is ready to marry when Etonde’s father, incredibly, rejects the marriage proposal at the last minute. Although traumatized, Musang, finally, deems the rejection a sign from heaven and so reconsiders a lingering vocation idea - the priesthood. Meanwhile, a devastated Etonde, now defiant of men, struggles on to regain her equilibrium. Years after, however, and barely months away from his ordination into the priesthood, Musang, an exemplary postulant, is suddenly given the unenviable choice to go on probation or leave the seminary; he leaves.

190 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2015 | Langaa RPCIG, CameroonPaperback: 978-9956-762-66-8: $22.95/£17.00

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BoundlessKefen Budji

This debut historical fiction is at once a story of love and identity as it is a portrait of aspects of colonial rule in Africa.

254 pages | 2015Spears Media Press, CameroonPb: 978-1-942876-02-1 $19.95/£15.95eBook: 978-1-942876-03-8$9.99/£6.99

A Pebble In The River Noufel Bouzeboudja

Akli is an old man now. He is in prison. It is from there that he begins telling his story of the colonisation of Northern Africa. and especially of his village, Thadarth. It is a narrative of revolution, war, torture, dispossession, corruption, intolerance, betrayal, terrorism, religious extremism but, above all, resistance.


Tori Shweet for Cameroon Pidgin English Peter W. Vakunta

Tori Shweet for Cameroon Pidgin English is a compendium of short stories written in Cameroon’s most widely spoken lingua franca commonly called Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE).


THE GOD’S DAUGHTERFrancis Baffour

Jackie Vance and her daughter Ama visit Ghana at the invitation of Mae Brown, an anthropology professor on sabbatical at the University of Cape Coast Ghana. While touring the female slave quarters at Elmina Castle, the largest castle in

Africa built by the Portuguese in 1482, Jackie, channelling an Ashanti princess who was captured during the British-Ashanti war, goes into a reverie about the horrifying experiences of the women who lived there several hundred years ago.

204 pages | 203 x 127mm | 2015Afram Publications, GhanaPb: 978-9964-70-529-9 $19.95/£15.95

FICTION - GHANA

MY FATHER’S SONGEfo Kodjo Mawugbe

This story is told from a song a father composed and sung to his son, the author, when he was young. The story is set in the days of old where man and animals could talk and understood each other. Alegeli (Rat), Dzakpata (Snake), and Zangbetor (a spirit) are stuck in a pit and on the verge of death.

They are rescued by Klogo, a poor hunter, and all three promise to help the hunter one day. Alegeli comes to Klogo with a pot of gold, which unknown to Klogo, was stolen from the chief ’s palace. He becomes rich overnight and becomes the talk of the village; some said he had acquired blood money, while others said he had inherited a fortune somewhere. Sakpli, the village drunk and gossip, reports to the palace that Klogo had stolen the chief ’s gold. Aligeli, Dzakpata, and Zangbetor have to come up with a plan save the hunter…

238 pages | 203 x 127mm | 2015 Afram Publications, GhanaPb: 978-9964-70-539-8 $26.00/£18.00



Nobody Can Fight UsJoseph Enuenwemba

Joseph Enuenwemba Obi’s short stories have been broadcast on Deutsche Welle and published in The New Black Magazine and Speaking For the Generations: An Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories edited by Dike Okoro.

114 pages | 2014 | 216 x 140mmMalthouse Press, NigeriaPb: 978-978-53250-7-2 $30.00/£22.00

On A Sad Weather-Beaten CouchSanya Osha

The most appealing quality of the novel is its haunting and unusual prose that really ought to be termed poetry. But this is poetry with an added touch as it is also a narrative that weaves together many lives engrossed in the daily struggle for survival.

238 pages |2015 | 203 x 127mmLangaa RPCIG, CameroonPb: 978-9956-76-242-2$28.00/£20.00

Shackles of Freedom Onyeka Ike

A fight for the soul of the nation is waged with patriots ready to let it all out but time seems to have a joker of its own waiting...With the thrill and dangers of the time, this is the story of that fight zoomed in through the eyes of a soldier willing to give his all.

200 pages | 2016 | 229 x 152mmMalthouse Press, NigeriaPb: 978-978-51932-9-9$20.00/£15.00

The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat Yemi D. Prince

The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat is redolent with creativity, weaving folklore and faith into literary and historical memoir.

250 pages | 2016 | 216 x 140mmLangaa RPCIG, CameroonPb: 978-9956-763-14-6 $25.00/£19.00

Habiba Razinat T. Mohammed

Radiant Mohammed brings to the fore the socio-cultural plight and challenges that bedevil impoverished northern Nigerian families and compel parents to scuttle their children’s educational ambitions at very tender ages in favour of marriage.

176 pages |2013 | 216 x 140mmKraft Books, NigeriaPb: 978-978-918-125-4 $23.00/£18.00

Kinsmen of the PresidentEdlyne Anugwom

Being a journalist in Nigeria is very risky business especially when you decide to go against the grain and print the truth.


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FICTION - SOUTH AFRICA

OUTSIDE THE LINES Ameera Patel

Outside the Lines is both a thriller and a family drama. It tells the story of two women: Cathleen, a troubled young woman living in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg; and Flora, who is the domestic worker at Cathleen’s house. Cathleen disappears - tensions and drama ensue.

“Ameera Patel’s first novel is edgy, witty, fresh, engaging, moving, memorable. This is an important new voice in the emerging movement of new South African fiction, taking us to places at once familiar and defamiliarised by the sensitivity of the writing. A vivid portrait of contemporary Johannesburg, wide-ranging, passionately engaged and acerbic.”– CRAIG HIGGINSON, author of novels The Hill, Last Summer, The Landscape Painter, The Dream House, and original plays Dream of the Dog, The Girl in the Yellow Dress, Little Foot.

AMEERA PATEL is an actor who has worked on stage and in television (best known for her role as Dr Chetty in Generations). She is also an award winning playwright. She received a distinction for her MA in Creative Writing in 2013 at the University of the Witwatersrand. Outside the Lines is her first novel.

210 pages | 203 x 133 mm | 2016 | Modjaji Books, South AfricaPb: 978-1-928215-12-7: $19.95/£14.95 eBook: 978-1-928215-13-4 $9.99/6.99

Now Following YouFiona Snyckers

Now Following You is a clever, chilling and compelling read, which deals skilfully with relevant issues - most notably, the power social media gives to stalkers and others who intend harm. Jamie Burchell is a digital native - social media comes as naturally to her as breathing. She Instagrams, tweets and Facebooks her every move. Then a stalker starts using social media to track her movements. As his behaviour escalates, so does her fear.

308 pages | 2015 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback: 978-1-928215-06-6 $22.00/£16.00eBook: 978-1-928215-07-3 $9.99/£6.99

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UnSettled and other storiesSandra Hill

Whether drawn from the distance of history or located in contemporary Cape Town, these eight stories create a tender and luminous account of just how extraordinary the everyday life of women can be.

132 pages | 2015 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback: 978-1-928215-14-1 $16.00/£12.00eBook: 978-1-928215-15-8 $9.99/£6.99

FICTION - SOUTHERN AFRICA

VIDOKONI: Folktales from Mzimba, MalawiHarvey C. Chidoba Banda

This book of twenty short stories makes a rare contribution towards the preservation and promotion of ukhaliro wa bene Malawi (Malawian culture) that is fast waning. This dilution of culture was put in motion by the British colonial masters and became exacerbated with the inception of democratic governance in 1994. There is a need for concerted efforts amongst various practitioners and stakeholders, led by the government itself, if the situation is to be put under control. Otherwise, sooner or later, it will simply be remote history that ‘long time ago, there was a unique culture in Malawi’. The book generally promotes such themes as nkharo yiwemi (good behaviour); uheni wa chigolo na sanje (the bad side of selfishness and jealousy); kulimbikira pa vinthu (hard working spirit); and uheni wa mitala (the folly of polygamy), among others. The strength of the book lies in the fact that there is room for the reader to draw their own lessons based on their understanding of a particular story, in addition to the lesson already highlighted.

190 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2015 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon Pb: 978-9956-762-66-8: $22.95/£17.00

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Changing FortunesGabriel Ellison

Changing Fortunes is a novel about a young woman named Malele who faces many challenges in her early desire for an education and her determination to escape from village life.

188 pages | 2015 | 216 x 140mmGadsden Publishers, ZambiaPb: 978-9982-24-095-6 $20.00/£16.00

Finding a Way Home Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

The important theme coursing through all the stories in the novel, Finding a Way Home, is that we have to make the journey to find our homes, we have to find the path, and start walking in that path.


Zimbabwe: The Urgency of NowTendai Rinos Mwanaka

A follow-up creative non-fiction book to Zimbabwe: The Blame Game, but goes further and focuses on Zimbabwe in the GNU entity, the 2013 elections, post elections and post GNU Zimbabwe, and Now.



ASOMNE AMWUE NDA (Sorrow in the House) Prudentia Binwi Asobo

Prudentia Binwi Asobo comes from Pinyin in the North West Region of Cameroon. She was educated in the University of Dschang, and later in the University of Yaounde 1. She is a graduate researcher in African Literature and Civilisations at the Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon.

136 pages | 203 x 133 mm | 2016 | Langaa RPCIG, CameroonPb: 978-9956-76-397-9: $20.00/£15.00

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FICTIONPOETRY - CAMEROON

If You Must Fall BushNsah Mala

Nsah’s verses evoke a society adrift: prey to the ravages of the selfish and irresponsible actions of modern man or, better still, postmodern man.

- YVONNE IDEN NGWA, PhD, Lecturer, ENS Yaoundé

128 pages | 2016 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Pb: 978-9956-763-85-6 $20.00/£15.00

Dangerous PastimeEkpe Inyang

The best way to understand a people is to live with the people; the best way to live with the people is to share with the people; and the best thing to share with the people is what the people need.


In A Predicament All My Life Prudentia Binwi Asobo

The poems in this collection bring into conversation precolonial Africa and Africa since colonialism. In particular, the poems explore Cameroon’s predicament, its reunification traits, and its existential challenges.

134 pages | 2015 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon Pb: 978-9956-762-88-0 $19.00/£15.00

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PRIDE ASIDE and Other PoemsBill F. NDI

Pride Aside and Other Poems rattles the brain as it blurs thematic boundaries. Even though Bill F. Ndi’s poems seem to clearly draw inspiration from everyday life, almost all the poems are structured as sonnets. Through the lines of the various poems in this collection, influences of poets from different schools of poetic creativity and streams of inspiration resonate. They bring to mind the metaphysical poets, the Romantics, the Symbolists, the Confessionalists, poets of the Beat Generation, Committed poetry, etc. As such reading the collection places the reader before a multifaceted and intriguing cultural document imbued with literary influences from Chaucer to W.B Yeats and beyond. However, their insight and the richness of their humanity transform the poems essentially into meditations on the soul of our civilization. This poetic work is vibrant and thought provoking.

96 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2016 | Langaa RPCIG, CameroonPb: 978-9956-763-61-0: $16.00/£12.00

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Poems from Abakwa in Cameroon Pidgin EnglishPeter W. Vakunta

“Poems from Abakwa in Cameroon Pidgin English is one patriotic rage. An anthology of sorts, this book of poems contains wisdom, inspirational reflections and witticisms for all.” - DR. FIDELIS ACHENJANG, Union College, USA

116 pages | 2015 |Langaa RPCIG, CameroonPb: 978-9956-792-23-8 $19.95/£15.95

Stream of Consciousness: Poetics of the Universal Peter W. Vakunta

Vakunta’s poetry is both a transversal and longitudinal dissection of our world. The poet assumes the posture of a divinity casting interrogative glances at the deeds of humans.

- TAMEGNON DEMAGBO, University of Indianapolis

156 pages | 2015 | Langaa RPCIG, CameroonPb: 978-9956-792-94-8 $28.00/£20.00

Takumbeng and Other Poems from AbakwaPeter W. Vakunta

The poems address human rights violations, rape of democracy, misgovernment, and other forms of societal ills that plague post-colonial Cameroon.

188 pages | 2015 | Langaa RPCIG, CameroonPb: 978-9956-762-40-8 $20.00/£16.00


POETRY

EX ABSURDO SEQUITUR QUODLIBETNerisha Yanee Dewoo and Moshumee Teena Dewoo

Usually shunned, condemned or narcotised as quickly as acknowledged, the absurd remains nevertheless a large part of reality. Loyal to their poetic pen, Teena and Yanee Dewoo choose to embrace and transcribe a fragment thereof in this book, in the manner in which it coloured their own thoughts or materialised around them in the past year in Mauritius – as zealous objection to human existence as defined by Science or Religion, and consequently, as a sort of de-stigmatisation of psychosis.

“Ex absurdo sequitur quodlibet is a fantastic trip from beginning to end. Grippingly powerful, you’ll be taken on emotional highs and lows, their (her) words guiding you softly through. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself coming back for more, again and again.”

- GIULIO DE CANDIA, Poet, AAA School of Advertising, South Africa

86 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2015 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon Pb: 978-9956-792-35-1: $15.95/£12.95

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Revolution: Struggle PoemsTendai Rinos Mwanaka

Poems in Revolution take the experimental approach as they deal with struggle issues. They go further in bringing into focus how our revolutions have not delivered us across the line, and how to get across the line.


Born with VoiceNkwazi Nkuzi Mhango

Born with Voice examines the psyche and scrape of the victims of various crimes, especially sexual discrimination-cum-exploitation, rape, and the killing of people with albinism.


Soul On SaleNkwazi Nkuzi Mhango

Soul On Sale (SOS) sounds like a rap song though it isn’t. It isn’t purely a poem but a long- provocative and vigorous song focusing on the history of injustices and those suffering from injustice urging them to take action.

118 pages | 2015 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon Pb: 978-9956-762-84-2 $19.95/£15.95

POETRY - NIGERIA

FIRE IN PARADISEUzoechi Nwagbara

“In this debut collection of poems, Fire in Paradise, Uzoechi Nwagbara explores the human condition through the prism of the Niger Delta where oil exploitation has environmental, political, economic, cultural, and other implications. The poet sings the tale of a people who are marginalized and brutalized for their bounty of oil. At the same time he envisions hope in the people’s resistance. There is much experimentation in form and style as the passionate poet deploys irony, repetition, images of a wasteland, and other tropes to register his themes... Doubtless, this is an exciting and strong poetic outing and a welcome addition to contemporary African poetry.”

- TANURE OJAIDE, Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

96 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2016 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria Paperback: 978-978-8422-54-9: $18.00/£14.00 |

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Just Thinking: Collection of Poems. Vol 1Abimbola Mosobalaje Davis

Just Thinking, Vol. I, a collection of poems, driven by passion and ripples of reaction against failing and failed love, exasperatingly repressive governance, man’s inhumanity to nature, and a host of other engaging subject matters.

102 pages | 2015 | Safari Books, Nigeria | Pb: 978-978-8431-89-3 $16.00/£12.00

The Fourth MasqueradeEbi Yeibo

Yeibo, in this fifth collection of poems, has strategically fashioned a kind of poetry that does not only derive its idiom from the prosody and folk tradition of the Izon of Nigeria, it equally advances the poet’s vision through form and structure.

124 pages | 2014 | Kraft Books, Nigeria | Pb: 978-978-918-169-8 $19.95/£15.95

Just Thinking: Collection of Poems. Vol 11Abimbola Mosobalaje Davis

Just Thinking, Vol II demonstrates renewed passion, skill and a more versatile approach to the presentation of societal decadence in diverse forms in Nigeria specifically and the world at large.

112 pages | 2015 | Safari Books, Nigeria | Pb: 978-978-8431-90-9 $16.00/£12.00


ALONG the ODOKOKO RIVERAhmed Koroma

“Ahmed Koroma has surpassed himself in this apt description about the community of his upbringing; the myths, beliefs and mores peculiar to its spawn and denizen, in this exhilarating collection of poems. He brings the rich cultural tapestry of these communities

to life through an intimate literary relationship with the Odokoko Waterway and its environs. His perspective use of juxtaposition to describe diverse experiences is uncanny and leaves one with a mysterious and powerful feeling of déjà-vu.”

- Dr FATMATTA TAQI, Lecturer, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone

AHMED KOROMA is an analytical chemist by profession. He was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He attended St. Edward’s Primary School and the Prince of Wales School. Ahmed Koroma graduated from Fourah Bay College (University of Sierra Leone) with a BSc Honors in Chemistry and holds a Masters degree in Chemistry from California State University at Northridge, California. He lives in California with his wife and two children.

106 pages | 229 x 152mm | 2016Sierra Leonean Writers SeriesPb: 978-99910-54-19-3 $17.00/£14.00

POETRY - SIERRA LEONE

MANSCAPE in the SIERRAGbanabom Hallowell

“The spirit of search pervades the whole collection with recurring images of the poet looking through windows into vast expanses of landscape and seascape, into the Lion Mountains of his country, into its trees, listening to the sound of its rivers, its birds and its people. Gbanabom Hallowell is

always conscious of his responsibility as a poet to his country.”

- ELDRED DUROSIMI JONES, Editor, African Literature Today and author,

Othello’s Countrymen

GBANABOM HALLOWELL, is the author of ‘Manscape in the Sierra: New & Collected Poems: 1991-2011’ and the editor of ‘Leoneanthology: Contemporary Short Stories & Poems from Sierra Leone’. His novel, ‘The Road to Kaibara’ was published by SLWS in 2015. Hallowell holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Social Sciences from The Union Institute & University, Ohio, and MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Vermont College, USA, Executive Education in Global Leadership & Public Policy from Harvard University, USA and a Higher Teachers Certificate from the then Milton Margai Teachers College, Sierra Leone. He has taught at universities both in the United States and in Sierra Leone. A 2006 recipient of the Young Global Leadership Award from the World Economic Forum, Hallowell is a member of the Poro Society Sierra Leone (MPSSL).

272 pages | 229 x 152mm | 2016 Sierra Leonean Writers SeriesPb: 978-99910-54-23-0 $32.00/£22.00


POETRY - SIERRA LEONE

The ROAD to JAMAICA Syl Cheney-Coker

In The Road to Jamaica, which was announced over forty years ago, but suppressed, Cheney- Coker looks at a particular period of African history; the tragic, outward voyages of people and other social variants that have been part of what he calls his Afro-Saxon narrative. Crucially, the volume is divided into two sections: the first being a look at the shock of displacement, but also the remembrance of identifiable modes in the formation of a new cultural perspective. Looking back at remembered landscape, languages and cultural comforts, the poet has attempted to recreate as chapter of history that changed his and other people’s idea of identity. The long poems that usher in Part 2 of the volume are, in a sense, reflections on that evolving template about our small world: the happenstances of regeneration, while at the same time an attempt to come to terms with the realities that societies, the world over, are bound to the inevitability of change. Given the smallness of that world, the oneness of our humanity, and the quiet personal awareness of aging, Cheney-Coker has, as usual, focused his lenses on them.

80 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2015 | Sierra Leonean Writers Series Paperback: 978-9991-09-12-28: $12.00/£8.00

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Singing in Exile and The Child of War Sheikh Umarr Kamarah

This collection of poems examines the causes of the African, specifically Sierra Leonean, condition, evaluates the African immigrant’s situation in the West

126 pages | 2016Sierra Leonean Writers SeriesPb: 978-99910-54-27-8 $18.00/£12.00

The Edge of a Cry Oumar Farouk Sesay

OUMAR FAROUK SESAY was resident playwright of Bai Burch Theatre in the heydays during the 1980s. Several of his plays were performed in the then City Hall which won him accolades amongst his peers.

116 pages | 2015Sierra Leonean Writers SeriesPb: 978-99910-54-06-3$19.00/£15.00

Voices and PassionsAbdulai Walon-Jalloh

This collection of 54 poems by Abdulai Walon-Jalloh explores childhood through to adulthood and rekindles the souls and thoughts of a generation in an honest and clear manner. Nothing is left untouched as the deepest fears to great moments of anxiety and hope are laid bare for all to enjoy and reflect


Ayo Ayo Ayo and Other Love SongsMoses Kainwo

Ayo Ayo Ayo and other Love Songs is deeply personal, authentic, and incisive. Written with poetic fervor and sophistication, it highlights the thematic and stylistic preoccupations of the writer in the context of pain, violence, and recovery.


MATRIC RAGEGenna Gardinit

The eagerly-awaited debut from one of the South Africa’s most exciting young poets, Matric Rage is Genna Gardini’s reckoning with youth, womanhood and mortality. With hyper-literate, humorous and often heartbreaking poems, Gardini signals a wind change in South African poetry – where the personal is not just political, but polemical, too. In sickness and sex, misogyny and manners, this is a collection that, above all, showcases a powerful writer coming unapologetically into her own.

GENNA GARDINI, born in 1986, is the winner of the 2012 DALRO New Coin Prize and a 2013 Mail & Guardian Young South African. Born in Johannesburg and raised in Durban, Genna currently lives in Cape Town, where she works as a lecturer and critic.

84 pages | 203 x 133 mm | 2015 | uHlanga Press, South AfricaPaperback: 978-0-620-67692-2: $15.00/£10.00

POETRY - SOUTH AFRICA

Failing Maths and My Other CrimesThabo Jijana

In a whirlwind of local history, contemporary culture, domestic angst, and nostalgia, Thabo Jijana’s debut collection of award-winning poems exhibits an emotional wisdom beyond the writer’s years. Earthen and edgy, musical and minimal, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes is not solely a meditation on family and mortality, nor just a manifesto on the role of art in a young man’s life: beyond all, this collection is a short masterclass in South African storytelling-in-verse.

68 pages | 2015 | uHlanga Press, South Africa | Pb: 978-0-620-67693-9 $15.00/£10.00

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The myth of this is that we’re all in this togetherNick Mulgrew

Equal parts flippant and plaintive, Nick Mulgrew’s first collection of poems is a three-part meditation on the ways in which people lose trust in each other, their communities, and themselves. Experimentally laced with monologue, anecdote and truism, these thirty-two self-aware, diary-esque poems languish in the small sadnesses and frayings of a terminally uncertain society in a socially-mediated age.

70 pages | 2015 | uHlanga Press, South Africa | Pb: 978-0-620-67694-6 $15.00/£10.00


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FOLLOW THE ROAD Elisa Galgut

These deeply felt poems are at once plain-speaking and alive with complexity; Galgut’s elegant response to both pain and loveliness is inspiring. ELISA GALGUT teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. She has a PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. Her poetry has appeared in local literary journals and anthologies. She lives in Cape Town.

“The Attribute of Poetry offers a feast of thought and image. Elisa Galgut’s poetry seems both new and old, fresh in its ingenuity and mature in the wisdom of its deliberations. In these ‘incantations of creation’ (to borrow a line from one of the poems) a quiet yet powerful voice speaks to us; and we cannot but be moved by it.”

- DAVID MEDALIE

44 pages | 210 x 148 mm | 2015 | Modjaji Books, South AfricaPaperback: 978-1-928215-02-8: $14.00/£11.00 eBook: 978-1-928215-16-5 $9.99/£6.99

A Saving BannisterWendy Woodward

‘Across the abyss a bannister goes, a raining on a ledge over sullen darkness, leading its intermediaries to stairs up and down, rooms that begin and do not end, halls of light ( but rarely glory), alcoves peopled by rain spiders and slow breathing.’ So begins Wendy Woodward’s third volume of poetry , a journey into vulnerability and grace, across terrains inhabited by dogs, minotaurs and leviathans, by puppets and a failed Icarus.

60 pages | 2015 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Pb: 978-1-920590-80-2 $12.95/£9.95

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Signs for an ExhibitionEliza Kentridge

Eliza Kentridges’s poems are autobiographical. She was born in Johannesburg, the daughter of two lawyers who fought apartheid. In her twenties she left South Africa for England, where she became an artist. Against the dramatic background of her home country’s history, her focus is quieted, small and interior. With her mother afflicted by a serious neurological illness, she writes about family, love and place, as a woman who vividly recalls her girlhood self, gently and almost incidentally approaching one of the biggest questions: how does one live a life?

144 pages | 2015 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Pb: 978-1-920590-79-6 $19.00/£15.00

YOUNG ADULT

THE CHOICE Juma Mwamgwirani Mwakimatu

Mria is a secondary school student who is in love with David, a young man from her neighbourhood. David is a promising law student. Their relationship seems idyllic but is put under strain when David brings up the issue of pre-marital sex. Despite her love and fondness for David, Mria is against it. She has goals in her life, including graduating from secondary school; she refuses because she is afraid of becoming pregnant and being forced to quit school and give up her dreams. This novel, by newly-minted author Juma Mwamgwirani Mwakimatu addresses this timeless issue which faces adolescents time and again as they take their first steps from childhood platonic intimacies into the larger world of adult relationships. The author deftly portrays the pressures suffered by Mria and David, and surprises with the twists and turns of the narrative as the young pair face the choice between love and disreputable behaviour in this moral tale.

148 pages | 198 x 129mm | 2015 | Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania Pb: 978-9987-08-162-2: $20.00/£15.00

It All Goes WrongErna Müller

Twelve-year-old Amy is devastated when her parents move from Cape Town to Windhoek. She misses her old life and finds Namibia so boring. But everything in Amy’s life is changing and things that she took for granted are being swept away from her. As she struggles to make friends and fit in, her loneliness is intensified by difficulties at home. When Amy hears about girls disappearing, she takes no notice until someone she knows goes missing ...Will Amy be next?

106 pages | 210 x 148 mm | 2015 | Wordweaver Publishing House, Namibia Pb: 978-99945-82-01-3 $16.00/£12.00 | eBook: 978-99945-82-05-1 $9.99/£6.99

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Ask the Stars Anthony Mugot

In Ask the Stars, Titus Mutuiria remembers how at the age of ten he seemed to lead a normal life of sibling rivalry with Njorua, Antonnina and Sarah until some events from their past threaten to rewrite his life. Njorua and Antonnina learn that Mutumia Mutana, the mother they have always known is not their biological mother while Titus learns that Muthuri Mukaru is not the biological father of himself and Sarah.

150 pages | 210 x 148 mm | 2014 | Longhorn Publishers, KenyaPb: 978-9966-31-062-0: $14.00/£10.00 eBook: 978-9966-31-062-0 $9.99/£6.99

YOUNG ADULT

MAY I HAVE THIS DANCE Connie Manse Ngcaba

May I Have This Dance was named an Honor Book for 2016 by the CHILDREN’S AFRICANA BOOK AWARDS Committee. It tells the courageous and moving story of Connie Manse Ngcaba, who grew up in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, where she became a nurse, community figurehead and a leading voice of dissent against the apartheid regime. Her sense of justice and morality, and her compassion for those around her, brought her into frequent conflict with the government, culminating in her being detained for a year without trial at the age of 57. It is also the story of the strength of family ties, and the triumph of Connie’s love for her husband and children.

“This inspiring autobiography is the story of a remarkable, strong, and courageous woman’s love of family, community, and country. It is the story of a life lived with deep compassion for all.”

- LESEGO MALEPE, Africa Access Review (December 17, 2015)

160 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2015 | Cover2Cover Books, South AfricaPb: 978-0-9922-0179-1: $19.95/£15.95

The Devil’s HillNgumi Kibera

Dani is gifted in all ways, yet he lives under the shadow of his hero, an old friend and a school dropout. The day he discovers a heap of money and a gun under a trap door in his friend’s house, he realised his friend was no longer a mere bully but a member of a dangerous gang wanted for various crimes ranging from smuggling diamonds, carjacking to murder. This becomes the beginning of a nightmare that nearly costs Dani his life as well as that of another of his friends, Zack.

212 pages | 2012 | Longhorn Publishers, Kenya | Pb: 978-9966-36-236-0 $14.00/£10.00

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Was Nyakeera my FatherElizabeth Kabui

Eavesdropping on his parents, James Kirika, a fifteen-year-old teenager, hears a conversation that suggests that he is not the biological son of the man he calls ‘Father’. This realisation sends him into a tortured search for the man who brought him into this world. Things get complicated when the chief source of information, his old and hallucinating grandmother, gives him a fuzzy lead. Does he ever find out the truth?

154 pages | 2014 | Longhorn Publishers, Kenya | Pb: 978-9966-31-251-8 $14.00/£10.00ebook: 978-9966-31-251-8 $9.99/£6.99


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